Just a real quick post before I go to bed.
I wrote over 4k words today in WAFH–all for a chapter that I basically cooked up on the fly. It feels amazing.
For the past month or so, I’ve been recycling old material, cutting a lot of stuff that doesn’t work, tweaking the stuff that does, and putting in a new scene here and there, but basically just doing revision (aka a “triage edit,” as Wolverton likes to call it).
I’m good at revision, but it seems that that’s all I’ve been doing for the past couple months. The more I revise, the harder it is to write new material–or at least, the harder it feels. I’ve always hated drafting new stuff, because midway through it all seems to fall apart and then I have to drop the project and let it settle in my mind.
But for this chapter, I basically told myself: “alright, this is what needs to happen, this is what the characters need to do–now GO!” I sped through the whole thing without paying conscious attention to the act of writing, and just pumped it all out.
Man, I need to do this more often. Writing is so much fun! I’m sure this stuff will need to be revised later, but the story is definitely taking form the way it needs to.
In other news, LTUE was this past weekend, and I was super lame for not posting about it. But have no fear; I’ll recap the event soon, probably sometime tomorrow <fingers crossed>. And, as with past events, I recorded all the panels I attended. I won’t post the links here, but if you want them, send me an email.
In unrelated news, Talecris sucks and I need a job. Actually, correction: I need to start getting paid for the work I’m already doing by writing these novels. One of these days, though…one of these days…
4200 words in a day is my record. Closest I came to that otherwise is something like 3500. Of course, that was back in the summer, when I was writing rather than revising, which is what I’m doing now.
Metagopolis, Joe! Read it! What you have of it, anyway…