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Anyone else writing a book?

Nice! I have a website where I've kept all my writing for about 10 years now. The program I wrote to manage it bit the dust, though, since I changed servers, so I switched to WordPress and am reposting things a bit at a time, providing commentary with each one. In the meantime, I am still working on my other projects! I have a lot on my plate, I suppose.
 
Just written the second of four flashback chapters, about 1700 words. Will type it up today and get on with the next one.
 
Nice work!

I'm a bit stuck. I hit a point in my outline where I'm looking at this chapter and thinking, "I don't want to write this part, this is stupid and pointless." :lol: So I am doing something completely different that might actually serve a far better purpose in the story than what I had planned.
 
Once the chapter was typed up it was actually 1,851 words, taking novel thus far to a fairly respectable 19,577 words.
 
Very nice! :techman:

I just ran my estimator program on my current draft, and it stands at 123,776 words, with a projected total of 134,976. So, very close to my "target" of 135,000!
 
I too have been writing a how-to book "The Hammer - Gods Tool", a 3,000 page tome' on the hammer, it's history, and proper usage, but recently read the warning label on the handle of a hammer I was using, and found out my book already comes with every new hammer, so I shelved it. :(

Originally, I thought it really hit the nail on the head, but now I'm swinging the other way.


k'riq
 
After typing up the next chapter, I am now at 21,339 words and the 1940s sequence is getting longer by the minute. I think I will need at least two more chapters before I go back to the present.
 
Great work! :techman:

I'm done with 24 of 30 chapters. Kind of slacking, but that's because I'm working on a website. Building this massive character biography form...
 
Only needed one more chapter in the past. Novel is now up to 22,777 words. I now move forward and read the next chapters and realise I need another flashback chapter, set 18 months later than the other ones though.
 
Good to see you're still making progress. :techman:

I've gotten a little sidetracked by a group project. Had to do a bunch of website work to make it happen. Plus, the next chapter I'm supposed to write seems kind of perfunctory, so I am letting it percolate a while so I can come up with a better way to approach it. I am in the home stretch, though: 6 chapters to go!
 
Bumpity bump! As of yesterday, I have officially written more in 2009 than I did in 2008. At this rate, I will hit somewhere in the neighborhood of my 2001 word count. I had a lot of bad years in between, but I'm getting things ramped up again.

I also only have 3 chapters to go in my current book. :techman:
 
I am always trying to write a book...I always freeze up even though I have everything played out in my mind...I think I a just lazy. Someone once told me to set hours where I do nothing but write...I have yet to set that up.


S.
 
It's definitely worthwhile to do that. It takes discipline to write a book. I used to have the same problem: I'd play out the scenario in my head, then I'd never get around to actually writing it.
 
One thing I am trying to write is a satire about a group of vampires. It is like Friends with vampires a bit more cynical. It is just ment to be funny, not like other vampire crap that is popular now.


S.
 
Okay guys, tell me I'm not completely OCD about drafts and story notes:

As a rule I hand write my 1st draft of either my outline (for long projects) and the first couple of chapters or completely for short-stories. And I never toss out anything, whether I completely end up going another way or not.

When I use the computer to type it all up: I save each chapter in a seperate file, then save is in .doc (.ods if I'm on the laptop), .rtf, and .txt formats with each revision being a separate file My file names end up looking like this: filename_draft##.fileformat

The wife thinks I'm wasting memory-- I keep copies on two seperate flashdrives, and file cabinet space (each completed draft gets a hardcopy print out with a CD-R attached to the front page).

Anyone else this bad about keeping a "paper trail" on their development process?
 
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