[writing] Tourbillon progris riport, day 13
Today’s wordage: 3,500
Today’s writing time: 2 hours
Total wordage: 50,200
Total writing time: 31 hours, 15 minutes
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[writing] Tourbillon progris riport, day 12
Today’s wordage: 3,800
Today’s writing time: 2 hours
Total wordage: 46,700
Total writing time: 29 hours, 15 minutes
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[writing] Tourbillon progris riport, day 11
Today’s wordage: 3,900
Today’s writing time: 2 hours
Total wordage: 42,900
Total writing time: 27 hours, 15 minutes
WIP: (more…)
[writing] Tourbillon progris riport, day 10
Today’s wordage: 5,600
Today’s writing time: 3 hours, 15 minutes
Total wordage: 39,000
Total writing time: 25 hours, 15 minutes
WIP: (more…)
[writing] Tourbillon progris riport, day 9
Today’s wordage: 5,300
Today’s writing time: 3 hours
Total wordage: 33,400
Total writing time: 22 hours
WIP: (more…)
[writing] Tourbillon progris riport, day 8
Today’s wordage: 2,700
Today’s writing time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Total wordage: 28,200
Total writing time: 19 hours
WIP: (more…)
[writing] Tourbillon progris riport, day 7
Today’s wordage: 3,300
Today’s writing time: 2 hours
Total wordage: 25,500
Total writing time: 16 hours, 30 minutes
Editorial comments: This is going better than I expected so far. I think it’s the ‘book 3’ effect. Much of the work I’d normally be doing early in a novel to establish world building and character elements both in my own mind and for the reader isn’t needed here to the same depth — it already exists. I need to reference them, so as not to confuse newcomers who might not have read Mainspring or Escapement, but I don’t need to unwrap them at length. Likewise the voice. I’m just rocking along with the plot having a good old time.
If I had to guess, I’d say the first draft will land at 200,000 words, plus or minus 25,000. Like Green that will be dreadfully over length to the contract specifications, but, well, so what? I’ll revise, rewrite, cut, chisel things off to short stories, whatever I need to do.
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