To give you an idea of the scale...

[agilebrit]

Of what I've accomplished so far.

In 2010, I penned 28,900 words. All year. Four stories.
I skipped 2011. Roleplay ate my brain.
In 2012, I penned 36,200 words. All year. Three stories.

In under two weeks, I've scribbled 27,600 words.

Now, these aren't "complete" words. Just because a story has an END at the bottom doesn't mean it's finished. I'm banging out words so fast that I'm sure they suck, and whatever number I end up with will undoubtedly be revised up or down as I actually squish these things into some semblance of "good."

But I like this process. It's working. I have outlines, I have plans, I hit the Great Swampy Middle and don't have time to get bogged down, and I never get to the point where I hate a story because I'm not flailing around trying to figure out what's Next.

It's still early days; I'm not halfway through the month and the edits haven't pinged my radar yet. Hell, for a panicked moment yesterday, I couldn't even remember how Angry Bitter Angel ended. And it's not easy.

But it's working.

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[highlander_ii]

Apparently this is the year of writing early... b/c I've been working on what's turned out to be an epic level fanfic (size-wise anyway) b/c I've already written close to 30k words in the course of like 3 weeks. (We started shortly after YT. 'We' being a friend and I - we plotted for like the 2 weeks up to the point YT fics were due.) I could barely get 25k words written in 3 months for my bigbang a few years back and now I've penned almost 30k in 3 weeks? IDEK what's going on there.

I'll tell you this though - I ain't mad at it. =)

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

It took me three months to write 15K words last year. I blew past that in the first week of this project.

Tell you what, though, if I hadn't planned it out, I'd be sooooo lost and frustrated. Suddenly, this pantser is very, very fond of outlining. It has saved my bacon.

[highlander_ii]

Outlining has it's uses. I had one for my bigbang and *still* almost didn't get all the words in. 2 4-hour plane rides made for some serious writing time though. =)

For this monster my friend and I are working on, we have a rough guideline and goalposts we wanna hit, but that's kind of all. It's working tho - b/c between the two of us, I think we're at nearly 40k, which is pretty epic!

So, I say - GO WRITER PEOPLE! XD