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The wanderer, in wandering, finds a nightmare in real life — 1264 words, 86,754 total
I had no clue what I was going to write today. I knew that yesterday I’d pulled well away from my line-for-scene outline, getting something better by far than the story sentence I’d written… but I had no clue what was going to happen next. I had the advantage of having the perfect ending for…
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Wow! Monsters and spies and the anguish of immortality — 1315 words, and 89,746 total
Tomorrow, I’m going to hit 90,000 words. I still have eight unwritten chapters outlined, and I still have one character who is locked inside some deep trouble, and one whose real identity has not yet been discovered, and I’m writing toward the ending that’s already finished so at least that won’t go haywire… But SHORT…
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A monster, ice cream… and a Scrivener compile error. 1402 words today, and 88,431 words
First, the compile error, because for a while, I thought I wasn’t going to have any way to show my wordcount for the day. There are things you have to remember to do when using Scrivener that must be taken care of the moment you do them. Adding a new chapter file, for example, requires…
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I loathe drama — ZERO words, ZERO replacement scene sentences built.
Sometimes my job as a writer and my job as a writing-community owner conflict. Today was one of those days — and it was ugly and infuriating. I lost one very nice member who has been with me for years because that writer’s work was attacked in an fashion by another member. I’m doing my…