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Originally Posted by jaxx6166
Well, boils and ghouls. Today, we learned that MoeJoe is superhuman. =)
I actually read Elmore Leonard's writing book today and found it hilarious. Especially his thoughts on Hemingway.
I may just try this tomorrow. Do you do your Finch stories in this timeframe too? I don't imagine there's much plotting figured out beforehand. But, plotting can just be a huge waste of time. I suck at math, but that works out to what? 22000 words a day. God, I'd love to see one of your drafts pre-editing.
I think I edited out about 40 chapters from Beyond the Black that were plotted out. Yeah. They never happened. Never were written.  |
I never plot, it's the most boring thing ever, for me there's no adventure in writing if I know what's going to happen, I may as well be doing accountancy in my spare time. I don't do research; if I don't know it when I'm writing, I'm never going to know it, besides all that, research in novels bores the hell out of me and I skip it. I have a ridiculous amount of stories / novels / plays / screenplays poems and other assorted things on the go at any one time, it's really quite stupid.
I have a rule of thumb when working on any project. 1 day = 10k or 1-2 short stories. I really don't want to be working on any one project more than 10 days, or any short story draft more than a day.
The most I've ever done in 1 day is 30,000 unedited words (some of them were quite decent too).
The least I've ever done was 2 words - The End
(That was actually the title of the story)
I try to write every day, but I don't, it's just stupid to think that anybody can write every day what with everything else going on in the world, and you know, I love to watch movies, and sometimes sleep. Besides, this isn't a job, its a passion, and passion doesn't keep schedules (unless you're in Mother Russia).