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Wordcount 11/28
Nov. 29th, 2021 12:51 pmNovel #4: 37k / 50k words?
I fell short of my original goal of 40k words, but that's okay.
I ended up not getting much writing done over the weekend; I realized I had some plot holes on Friday and felt demoralized, so I ended up playing Animal Crossing instead. But on the bright side, I fixed my plot hole on Sunday and also came up with some new scenes to include, even if I haven't written them yet. (I might have to credit Agatha Christie for my breakthrough? I was listening to an audiobook of one of her mysteries when the solution to my plot hole came to my head.)
Moral of the story: Making progress in writing isn't only about wordcount.
Second moral of the story: If you're writing a fantasy, remember to actually include the fantasy elements in your plot, DUH.
Overall, I'm relatively satisfied with the progress I made, even though I ended my Thanksgiving "vacation" not feeling all that much relaxed since I was taking time off from work...to work. Haha.
While it's waaay too early to think about the sequel to this story, I hope by the time I finish drafting this book, I'll have a more streamlined process for writing mysteries so the hypothetical sequel will go faster. Right now I feel like I'm bumbling around and stumbling into problems and solutions, thanks to my tendency to be a discovery writer.
But, on the other hand, personally, I find that sometimes it's better to just start putting words on a page, even if you know it's not the final version of the scene, just so you have momentum.
My outline is still super messy, so I might have to spend some time cleaning it up before I can continue drafting. I think I'm at the point at which the sequence of the investigation is slowly coming together for me, enough that I have a vague sense of the order of events and places where I'm missing scenes. As a character-driven writer, it's interesting to me that I first came up with scenes related to character/relationship development and am now having to figure out how to fit them into my protagonist's investigation. Writer problems...
I fell short of my original goal of 40k words, but that's okay.
I ended up not getting much writing done over the weekend; I realized I had some plot holes on Friday and felt demoralized, so I ended up playing Animal Crossing instead. But on the bright side, I fixed my plot hole on Sunday and also came up with some new scenes to include, even if I haven't written them yet. (I might have to credit Agatha Christie for my breakthrough? I was listening to an audiobook of one of her mysteries when the solution to my plot hole came to my head.)
Moral of the story: Making progress in writing isn't only about wordcount.
Second moral of the story: If you're writing a fantasy, remember to actually include the fantasy elements in your plot, DUH.
Overall, I'm relatively satisfied with the progress I made, even though I ended my Thanksgiving "vacation" not feeling all that much relaxed since I was taking time off from work...to work. Haha.
While it's waaay too early to think about the sequel to this story, I hope by the time I finish drafting this book, I'll have a more streamlined process for writing mysteries so the hypothetical sequel will go faster. Right now I feel like I'm bumbling around and stumbling into problems and solutions, thanks to my tendency to be a discovery writer.
But, on the other hand, personally, I find that sometimes it's better to just start putting words on a page, even if you know it's not the final version of the scene, just so you have momentum.
My outline is still super messy, so I might have to spend some time cleaning it up before I can continue drafting. I think I'm at the point at which the sequence of the investigation is slowly coming together for me, enough that I have a vague sense of the order of events and places where I'm missing scenes. As a character-driven writer, it's interesting to me that I first came up with scenes related to character/relationship development and am now having to figure out how to fit them into my protagonist's investigation. Writer problems...
