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puddingsmith ([personal profile] hope) wrote2011-03-12 09:44 pm
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Whee, writing

I feel bad for having such a good day when there's such shit going on in the word right now, but there we have it. I went out last night but quit while I was ahead, so awoke feeling fresh as a daisy... okay, maybe not. Fresh as a supermarket posy, perhaps, which is still kind of pretty depending on what supermarket you go to.

Anyway, then I lazed around reading and napping for a while, then went to a local artists' market, then I got flirted with by a hot waitress, then went and had a writing day with [personal profile] copracat, in which I wrote 2300+ words of my Epic Romance story. As I'm a touch obsessive and I'm thinking of this *now*, I'm totally going to keep a spreadsheet and generate a cumulative graph of my progress :D

Yes, I am just that cool.

At any rate, the 2300 words I've written are just the first two scenes, so I suspect this might end up being an extraordinarily long story. I might break my record! In which case, it'll be cool to see how my writing habits trend at different stages of the process :D

Anyway, I also wrote a 1300 word outline for the Epic Romance, and made some character sheets, and location sheets, and did I mention I heart Scrivener 2.0?

So, current wordcount: 2,374
Current mood: GWAAAINE I like you even more than I thought I did!


Meanwhile, This Merlin vid is fantastic.
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[personal profile] copracat 2011-03-12 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
\0/ A successful day. Writing day is a bit intense but you can't fault the results. *is quite smug*

I do think Scrivener would be improved if it kept daily (or time interval otherwise set by you) totals.

Possibly need more snack variety, though. And booze.
Edited (snacks!) 2011-03-12 11:42 (UTC)
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[personal profile] hope 2011-03-12 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! I need moar STATISTICS, dammit! Better reporting! :D

And I agree, re: snacks. And doesn't it feel good to accomplish shit ahead of deadline? (this is why I rarely sign up for deadlines, that way I just feel all accomplishment and never guilt!)
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[personal profile] copracat 2011-03-12 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Deadlines got me to write a lot last year and then life snuffed out the deadlines.

So I mostly like them.
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[personal profile] newredshoes 2011-03-12 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I know I tweeted this at you, but I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on Scrivener 2.0! I love that program like it's my own child, but I haven't upgraded yet, for whatever reason. What makes the new version so excellent?
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[personal profile] hope 2011-03-13 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think I use all the features of Scrivener I could - I mainly like its typography, and the full-screen view. It's got more templates for different kinds of projects, now (novel, multi-part novel, short story, screenplay), and within those different document templates - so as well as a folder for "research", there's one for characters, and one for places, that each have useful templates for tracking the details of those things.

I just love playing with it anyway, so don't mind paying a wee bit for that upgrade. And if I didn't like it, I could pretty much keep using it just as I use it now without really noticing a difference.
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[personal profile] laurenthemself 2011-03-12 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
As the total dork who's kept a spreadsheet of her final word count for every fic she's written ever, I thoroughly support this notion :D
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[personal profile] hope 2011-03-13 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
:D

I love that the AO3 lets me sort things by wordcount and hits as well as titles and dates! I just wish it had more reporting, so I could track my stats omg NUMBERS. I hate maths, yet I love reports. I have spreadsheet envy!
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[personal profile] laurenthemself 2011-03-13 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hit count sorting is LOVE. I got to watch one of my fics rocket from 0 hits to over 500 in like two days.

[identity profile] lolafeist.livejournal.com 2011-03-14 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Epic romance sounds intriguing!
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[personal profile] hope 2011-03-14 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
It's very exciting. In part because they're apart for most of it, so I can't resort to writing 50,000 words of porn (which is breaking a trend, let me tell you). Only now after writing ~5000 words, I'm itching to break the smut out again. Sigh! Luckily there's the kink meme to work off some steam :D

[identity profile] lolafeist.livejournal.com 2011-03-14 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Ohhh! As much as I love porn, I'm just as happy to read genfic or friendship fic or preslash or whatever.

Ahhhhh but the thought of you working off steam on the kinkmeme is a very happy thought.
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[personal profile] hope 2011-03-14 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
The Epic Romance is certainly not gen or only friendship fic, there is indeed much romancing in it. Just not much sex until the end, I'd say :D

But yes, yay for the kink meme! :D
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