agilebrit: (OMG MATH)
agilebrit ([personal profile] agilebrit) wrote2009-11-16 11:35 am

Monday!

And thus time for the Weekly Word Count.

Last week's wordcount: 120,500
This week's wordcount: 122,366
Word count for the week: 1,866

*wipes brow* Barely hit the goal.

HOWEVER. I have been hard at work on the Query Letter of Doom, which is sitting at 177 words right now, so, there's that. And that's after massive editing and paring down and squinting and tearing hair out over such tiny things as wondering if a target is painted on Ben's back as opposed to his chest, and whether he's a pawn in a chess match or a wild card in a poker game.

*snorts* Neither of which (the target or the game metaphor) have actually made it into the current version of the thing.

Monday Maunderings are going to be flocked--I'm going to post the query for y'all to tear into. Stay tuned.

[identity profile] foxfire74.livejournal.com 2009-11-17 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
A random though, which might be less so were I not stoned on chess medicine: might it work to use both? Along the lines of "Ben's realized that he's a pawn, and decides to change the game completely"? I can't pretty it up in my current state of sniffleheadachecough, but it might be attention-grabbing if edited up a tad.

Just to make your life more difficult. *grin*

[identity profile] agilebrit.livejournal.com 2009-11-17 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL. I'm noodling that around too, although my current state of muddle-headedness is not allowing me to think very well.

I swear, this two-hundred-word blurb is giving me more trouble than the entire 98,000-word book. Even when I realized my climax was broken I didn't angst about it as much as I'm ripping my hair out over this.