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Dec. 28th, 2012
Watch me shift focus! Like a champ.
Dec. 28th, 2012 11:01 pmSo, yeah, the 7th outline is not coming and... may never. I have no idea what to do with that idea and so it's being back-burnered, although "Alex tries to cure brain cancer and causes the zombie apocalypse instead" would be... horrifyingly apropos. I may go with that, but honestly, I don't think I'll need it for my NaNo project, so I'm not too bovvered.
Which is not to say I'm sitting back and doing nothing. I had a meeting with my Writing Buddy tonight, and after we spent an hour geeking out over our mutual interests, we got to the crit on the steampunk werewolf western.
Understand that the thing is over 15,300 words long right now. WotF caps their entries at 17,000 words. This means I have roughly 1700 words to play with to beat this thing into some semblance of shape. By the 31st, because that is the deadline.
Understand also that I'm a spare writer at the best of times and this sometimes manifests in a story seeming rushed. This is crit I'm constantly getting. In order to un-rush it, I'm going to have to add more words. I just don't know if I can keep this thing within the word count and still tell the story I want to tell.
Well. *cracks knuckles* I guess we'll see, won't we. At least it has a title now.
Which is not to say I'm sitting back and doing nothing. I had a meeting with my Writing Buddy tonight, and after we spent an hour geeking out over our mutual interests, we got to the crit on the steampunk werewolf western.
Understand that the thing is over 15,300 words long right now. WotF caps their entries at 17,000 words. This means I have roughly 1700 words to play with to beat this thing into some semblance of shape. By the 31st, because that is the deadline.
Understand also that I'm a spare writer at the best of times and this sometimes manifests in a story seeming rushed. This is crit I'm constantly getting. In order to un-rush it, I'm going to have to add more words. I just don't know if I can keep this thing within the word count and still tell the story I want to tell.
Well. *cracks knuckles* I guess we'll see, won't we. At least it has a title now.
