CURRENT: 38,685
PREVIOUS: 38,146
UPDATE!!!
NEW CURRENT: 39,479
I'm finally just 10,500 words away from the NaNoWriMo goal. Ha! :) Just four months removed... Just finished a major section of the story. It's just some rising action, climax and denouement from here. Wait! That's MOST of a story...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
WORD COUNT
PREVIOUS WORD COUNT: 36,890
CURRENT WORD COUNT: 37,300
Feeling under-rested. I'll try to do more later.
CURRENT WORD COUNT: 37,300
Feeling under-rested. I'll try to do more later.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Day Whatever I Don't Remember Anymore
I wrote some today. Want to write more tonight. Apparently reality has kept me from dreaming lately, but something's gotta give. Where well over 8 hours have been lost until May each and every day, I've got to make up for lost time somewhere. So here I go, avoiding the internet for a while to get some real work done. I miss you, blog, and all 3 of my readers!
GOAL: STAY AWAY FROM THE NOVELIST BLOG UNTIL MY ROUGH DRAFT IS FINISHED!
GOAL: STAY AWAY FROM THE NOVELIST BLOG UNTIL MY ROUGH DRAFT IS FINISHED!
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Phase Two Countdown: Day 17!
I may have neglected this pursuit for the last week. I will have to check my word count and see. It's been a real-world work week, my sister-in-law's baby shower, some family things, and a whole long day of wedding dress shopping with Melody, Ashton, and Melody's mom Wannetta.
I think I can still manage some decent writing in 17 days. I'm really close to the story's climax, and then, quite literally, it's all downhill from there. As for the comic, I have zero progress on that. So I'll let it stay on hold for now, as I've made the novel a priority.
I'm still feeling like I could accomplish something by the end.
I think I can still manage some decent writing in 17 days. I'm really close to the story's climax, and then, quite literally, it's all downhill from there. As for the comic, I have zero progress on that. So I'll let it stay on hold for now, as I've made the novel a priority.
I'm still feeling like I could accomplish something by the end.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Phase Two Countdown: Day 25!
I wrote exactly 2,400 words on my novel today. That brings me up to 34,233 words. I'm taking a brief break right now and may write more later. As far as story goes, I actually got somewhere, finally segueing into the last section of Part II. It's mostly action at this point, so the story is moving along. I'm just hoping I don't hit a brick wall after I conclude Part II. Here's to doing what I love! *lifts Sprite Zero to toast*
Friday, February 25, 2011
Phase Two Countdown: Day 26!
Nothing to report, except I've spent the last few days procuring a substitute teaching position in art. Given that statement, and the fact that there's a lot of work to get me underway at the new temp job, I'm just now to the point of making time for the other things that are important to me. So here I am, entering the last weekend before I'm officially working again (even though it's just for a while), with every intention of not just catching up, but getting very much ahead in the game.
I'll probably log 8 hours or more a day on both the book and the comic on Saturday and Sunday. Perhaps I'll focus on just the novel. We shall see. If I wake up at a decent hour, hide my phone, and jump into the work before I have too long to think about it, then I'll work all day and evening.
All right... Tamara Henson Sucker-Me-Into-Working-On-My-Book-When-I-Should-Be-Prepping-For-A-Job Tactic underway! And good night!
I'll probably log 8 hours or more a day on both the book and the comic on Saturday and Sunday. Perhaps I'll focus on just the novel. We shall see. If I wake up at a decent hour, hide my phone, and jump into the work before I have too long to think about it, then I'll work all day and evening.
All right... Tamara Henson Sucker-Me-Into-Working-On-My-Book-When-I-Should-Be-Prepping-For-A-Job Tactic underway! And good night!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Phase Two Countdown: 29!
ON THE NOVEL: I managed a little over 1,000 words today.
Previous Word Count: 30,728.
Current Word Count: 31,833
ON THE COMIC: I didn't meet my 3 page quota for the day. I'll try again tomorrow.
CONCLUSIONS: I forced time for the book and quality may have suffered, as I write better earlier in the day. I did not force time for the comics, with company at the house tonight, and I think I'm brain-dead for the evening anyway! Busy day tomorrow!
Previous Word Count: 30,728.
Current Word Count: 31,833
ON THE COMIC: I didn't meet my 3 page quota for the day. I'll try again tomorrow.
CONCLUSIONS: I forced time for the book and quality may have suffered, as I write better earlier in the day. I did not force time for the comics, with company at the house tonight, and I think I'm brain-dead for the evening anyway! Busy day tomorrow!
Monday, February 21, 2011
Phase Two Countdown: 30!
NOVEL: I had written 28,598 words on my novel as of my last post. Now, I've got 30,728 words. That's 2,130 words just today. Took me a while, but I'm finally at a stopping point for the day.
COMICS: Two pages completely penciled, minus lettering, which will be digital. Two more pages that are in the 6X9 detailed "thumbnail" stage, ready to be scanned, blown up, and transferred to industry standard 10X15 paper for full penciling and inking.
PROGRESS: Very therapeutic to just sit and draw, letting that right brain function to link pieces together. It's been so long since I've had the chance. And I'm doing a relatively new art style! I still have the swimmy art-head from focusing on it so long. It's hard to believe it's almost 1am!
MEMORIES: I wish I could find the little comic strips and full-pagers I made in grade school. I had some comic about a mermaid and her pet Lock Ness monster. Very cartoony and stylized. I drew it on notebook paper and quit because I couldn't draw them both accurately over and over.
And on all the subject separators in my notebooks, I used to draw little worlds with cutaway ceilings and walls, like a mermaid world with mazes of grottos that served as beauty parlors, jobs, stores, restaurants and homes. Then I'd draw the mini mermaids going about their daily business. Or I'd draw fairies living in a tree community, with flowers and leaves and holes in the wood as homes. They were more like maps than art, crossections of worlds. I coulda lived in those places.
That is how imagination works. It's transportative. And what's weird is that I haven't really changed a bit in that respect. I still create worlds in which I would want to live. Sometimes they're maps. Sometimes they're words. Sometimes they're drawings or notes scribbled on scraps of paper. It's wonderful and dynamic. When I was little, I just assumed that everyone created worlds. Am I right?
COMICS: Two pages completely penciled, minus lettering, which will be digital. Two more pages that are in the 6X9 detailed "thumbnail" stage, ready to be scanned, blown up, and transferred to industry standard 10X15 paper for full penciling and inking.
PROGRESS: Very therapeutic to just sit and draw, letting that right brain function to link pieces together. It's been so long since I've had the chance. And I'm doing a relatively new art style! I still have the swimmy art-head from focusing on it so long. It's hard to believe it's almost 1am!
MEMORIES: I wish I could find the little comic strips and full-pagers I made in grade school. I had some comic about a mermaid and her pet Lock Ness monster. Very cartoony and stylized. I drew it on notebook paper and quit because I couldn't draw them both accurately over and over.
And on all the subject separators in my notebooks, I used to draw little worlds with cutaway ceilings and walls, like a mermaid world with mazes of grottos that served as beauty parlors, jobs, stores, restaurants and homes. Then I'd draw the mini mermaids going about their daily business. Or I'd draw fairies living in a tree community, with flowers and leaves and holes in the wood as homes. They were more like maps than art, crossections of worlds. I coulda lived in those places.
That is how imagination works. It's transportative. And what's weird is that I haven't really changed a bit in that respect. I still create worlds in which I would want to live. Sometimes they're maps. Sometimes they're words. Sometimes they're drawings or notes scribbled on scraps of paper. It's wonderful and dynamic. When I was little, I just assumed that everyone created worlds. Am I right?
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