Author Topic: I Wrote a Thousand Words Today Club (Read 74997 times)

SunflowerScribe · « **Reply #270 on:** August 18, 2012, 01:20 PM »

Over 2000 words for me today. And a completed first draft at 50,340 words. Now, it's time to shelve that piece for at least a few weeks to a month before I go into 'Revisionland.'

Anissa · « **Reply #271 on:** August 18, 2012, 01:46 PM »

Congratulations, Christine! That is SUCH an awesome feeling!

AmandaSue · « **Reply #272 on:** August 20, 2012, 11:11 PM »

Wow Congrats Christine! I am hoping I can finish this first draft by October. We'll see. I feel like I still have so far to go. I wrote a thousand words on Friday and Sunday, but not today. Although I did get some inspiration about changing a certain plot point so that other events are more meaningful, and it will also be easier to write too. So, yay!!!

AmandaSue · « **Reply #273 on:** August 21, 2012, 02:25 PM »

1600 words and a new character and twist in the plot. Yay!!!

Michelle DP · « **Reply #274 on:** August 21, 2012, 09:28 PM »

Congrats, Christine, and congratulations on your new character, AmandaSue.

I wrote 1500 words and introduced the last major character in the book. However, I now have to figure out how to get my MC to ever go back to her room.

Michelle DP · « **Reply #275 on:** August 22, 2012, 08:39 PM »

I got 1,000 words today. My MC is on starting to see what is going on.

AmandaSue · « **Reply #276 on:** August 22, 2012, 11:29 PM »

1300 words today and starting to pull together all the threads to march through the middle and into the end where the loose ends can be tied up. Still a lot of middle left to go, but I feel like I can see the path.

Michelle DP · « **Reply #277 on:** August 23, 2012, 08:33 PM »

1600 words and I am wondering why I thought writing was something I wanted to pursue.

AmandaSue · « **Reply #278 on:** August 23, 2012, 09:56 PM »

Sorry about the hard day Michelle. But 1600 words is great! Esp. if they were fought for!

I wrote 1200 words today, incorporating minor villain into the plot. He's mostly just a jerk. But a dwarf with an inferiority complex is kind of fun to write.

AmandaSue · « **Reply #279 on:** August 24, 2012, 05:46 PM »

911 words squeaked out today. I'm sure there will be more added in revisions. But I'm counting it today and looking forward to a weekend off, and possibly the next week since I have family coming in.

Michelle DP · « **Reply #280 on:** August 27, 2012, 02:48 PM »

I only got about 600 new words today, but I cleaned up and streamlined a lot of stuff. It was a great scene to write. My MC is starting to realize that what she has in her house might be worse than ghosts.

Michelle DP · « **Reply #281 on:** August 28, 2012, 01:16 PM »

Finally, I got 1500 words, and in about two hours, too. It was a fun scene, but I am rapidly reaching the point where I need another pint-sized magical creature, and I haven't got an idea what to use. I've run across a few obscure creatures, but nothing that really stirs imagination. I guess it's time to hit the books again.

Verla Kay · « **Reply #282 on:** August 28, 2012, 02:04 PM »

I would feel happy if I wrote TEN words today. But I won't. I'm making (and preparing to decorate) a wedding cake for Saturday. I'll be lucky if I even THINK ten words today.

thunderingelephants · « **Reply #283 on:** August 29, 2012, 09:40 AM »

Quote from: Verla Kay on August 28, 2012, 02:04 PM

I would feel happy if I wrote TEN words today. But I won't. I'm making (and preparing to decorate) a wedding cake for Saturday. I'll be lucky if I even THINK ten words today.

Definitely know how that feels, Verla. I got fifty done, so I should be booted out of this club. Speaking of decorating, there's a great catering shop near me that sells everything for cake decorating, and since I can't bake, it is of no use to me, but I bought some candy flowers to place on some bars I just made.
Oh, and I have John's Christmas present sorted already: a beer pitcher chocolate mold. It looks fab!
Good luck at that wedding.

Verla Kay · « **Reply #284 on:** August 29, 2012, 02:35 PM »

I used to have awesome chocolate candy molds. Some were X-rated, most were not.

xC0000005 · « **Reply #285 on:** August 29, 2012, 04:39 PM »

Quote from: Michelle DP on August 27, 2012, 02:48 PM

I only got about 600 new words today, but I cleaned up and streamlined a lot of stuff. It was a great scene to write. My MC is starting to realize that what she has in her house might be worse than ghosts.

I know the feeling. Only 400, but I rewrote a troublesome scene in a way that finally felt right. And I know exactly how your MC feels, that point where you would turn around, but you are dead certain that right behind you is a vacuum cleaner salesman.

Editing counts, right? (no...back to drafting).

olmue · « **Reply #286 on:** August 31, 2012, 12:14 PM »

1200 words today! The last book I wrote just poured out of me. This one is about as easy as eradicating dandelions. The words just don't want to come out! So I'm rather pleased at the progress.

xC0000005, I think editing MUST count. Because sometimes you hit those snags where if you *don't* fix it then, the whole story will be derailed. So you're investing in your 1000 words tomorrow, right?

xC0000005 · « **Reply #287 on:** August 31, 2012, 05:46 PM »

Quote from: olmue on August 31, 2012, 12:14 PM

xC0000005, I think editing MUST count. Because sometimes you hit those snags where if you *don't* fix it then, the whole story will be derailed. So you're investing in your 1000 words tomorrow, right?

Did yesterday's thousand, today's thousand, and for bonus points tacked on a thousand for tomorrow. Not that it works like that.

If I did three thousand today, that's fantastic. I still owe myself another thousand tomorrow.

AmandaSue · « **Reply #288 on:** September 06, 2012, 10:14 PM »

Well, after a week of visiting family and then getting a Highlights article whipped into shape and sent off, I am back to this novel. Yay! So another 1400 word chapter down.

AmandaSue · « **Reply #289 on:** September 07, 2012, 11:03 PM »

952 words? I'm counting it. Not a finished chapter, but most of the meat is down. Just have to finish up a conversation between a boy and a bear.

Karen K · « **Reply #290 on:** September 12, 2012, 12:33 AM »

I wrote 1700 words today, while revising! This is great for me, because usually I revise at a snail's pace.

:dragon:

Karen

AmandaSue · « **Reply #291 on:** September 12, 2012, 12:52 AM »

Go Karen! I have been writing about 800 words a day lately, and adding revision notes here and there.

ruecole · « **Reply #292 on:** September 12, 2012, 07:27 PM »

Yay! I can post in this thread again! Today I wrote 1830 words! A first in a LOOOONNNGGG time!

Go Karen K and AmandaSue!

Rue

AmandaSue · « **Reply #293 on:** September 13, 2012, 11:48 PM »

1500 words today. But I'm feeling dissatisfied with the way this chapter ended. I think I want it higher stakes. I will have to ruminate on it for a while and fix it tomorrow.

AmandaSue · « **Reply #294 on:** September 17, 2012, 11:37 PM »

1000 words plus the rewrite on the last chapter. So much more exciting! I love the change!

AmandaSue · « **Reply #295 on:** September 18, 2012, 11:17 PM »

1500 words and a fairy godmother.

thunderingelephants · « **Reply #296 on:** October 03, 2012, 06:21 AM »

Quote from: Verla Kay on August 29, 2012, 02:35 PM

I used to have awesome chocolate candy molds. Some were X-rated, most were not.

Why do you have to live so far away, Verla?

Woke up very early this morning and after watching some horribly trashy television, I became extremely agitated. Then I heard John come out of his room and walked to college with him and decided to go for a coffee.

I know all of this is irrelevant, but on the way in, I got a sudden inspiration and over my coffee I got over 300 written. Not much for you 1000 worders, I realise, but I haven't finished yet.

It feels good to post here again.

503 words in total today. Not bad for a longhander. Plus, a friend proofreader dropped mid-session and cheekily demanded a peek. Apart from a few tweaks, I got my first thumbs up.
I'm happy with that.

Mrs. Jones · « **Reply #297 on:** October 31, 2012, 02:22 PM »

Stopping in to say that it's taken me three days to write 1100 words. And each word was absolute torture, because even though they are new words, they are part of a revision for an old manuscript.

Anyway, I am very, very happy right now, so I'm here to do the dance!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful writing day!!

thunderingelephants · « **Reply #298 on:** November 01, 2012, 10:56 AM »

Quote from: Mrs. Jones on October 31, 2012, 02:22 PM

Stopping in to say that it's taken me three days to write 1100 words. And each word was absolute torture, because even though they are new words, they are part of a revision for an old manuscript.

Anyway, I am very, very happy right now, so I'm here to do the dance!

Enjoying that dance, Mrs. Jones. Every time I come I get disheartened a little. I "only" write half that quota normally, but longhand it's actually quite a lot. Definitely writer's cramp involved. Anyway, I got nearly six hundred done so I'm happy.
I also finally mastered the art of caramel so I'm off too make a new kind of chocolate candy for me: lemon and orange caramel. Also gonna start my trademark beer ones: Old Engine Oil. Love that name, it's not a bad beer either.
Talk to you guys tomorrow probably.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful writing day!!

Hélène Boudreau · « **Reply #299 on:** December 01, 2012, 08:41 PM »

Great progress, everyone! I think I need to join this thread again.

I need about 20,000 more words to get Real Mermaids #4 in 'first draft' mode and I'm hoping to do that before Christmas.

Got my 1,000 words in today.

RM#4: +1,000 = 26,000

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