Ok, so not even the Colorado 3 are holding me to my self-imposed Word-O-Meter goals. You guys haven’t even bugged me about how it’s going–slackers!!!
I have made some progress over the last few weeks. Not close to goal level, but something is better than nothing right?
Words=13,900
Since I seem to be blogging into a vacuum, this feels pretty pointless…but here goes.
Words=9,363
So I didn’t get much done. Actually, I’ve been rather busy with an internet writing workshop I’ve recently joined. I’m currently critiquing works by about 5-6 authors, one chapter at a time. Some are very good. In return, I’ve received 6-7 critiques on the first chaper of Stark. Lot’s of folks laughing, so that’s good. And I’ve gotten a few helpful suggestions for improvement as well. Interesting stuff. But I need to get back to the project at hand. Hopefully the count will go up significantly for next week.
When I started bugging swt to build me a blog, the idea was two-fold. It would give me a web presence with access to readers I don’t prepare breakfast for each morning and it would provide incentive to keep writing new stuff—a self-imposed pseudo-deadline mechanism with built in accountability, if you will. Originally I had envisioned posting the latest chapter of whatever novel I was working on say, once a week (it’s good to have goals).
But there’s a problem with this plan—I don’t tend to write linearly. I sort of jump from one nifty scene to the next leaving massive sections unwritten in between. Eventually these get filled in, preferably with more nifty scenes. It works for me, but not so much if you’re trying to read along.
Enter the Word-o-meter. Each week I’ll report on my progress in sheer word numbers—and if I’ve fallen woefully short, it’s up to you, my devoted friends and the built in accountability, to call me on it. I’m looking in a westerly direction as I write this. You know who you are!!!!!
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In response to abby26’s goading (see comments), here is the initial chapter of WORDS. It’s all you get till I finish.