Pattern Ghost Posted November 25, 2022 Report Share Posted November 25, 2022 I'm at 0 words so far this year. I'll start first thing tomorrow. Maybe I'll hammer out that Noir Planetary Romance idea I've had kicking around in the back of my head for a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted November 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2022 Go for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 25, 2022 Report Share Posted November 25, 2022 9 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said: I'm at 0 words so far this year. I'll start first thing tomorrow. Maybe I'll hammer out that Noir Planetary Romance idea I've had kicking around in the back of my head for a few years. Try this route: scratch.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted November 27, 2022 Report Share Posted November 27, 2022 Almost done with the nano with 2k and some change left. 5k left with the writathon. Don't know how much left for the quarter milly CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 27, 2022 Report Share Posted November 27, 2022 On 11/24/2022 at 10:33 PM, Pattern Ghost said: I'm at 0 words so far this year. I'll start first thing tomorrow. Maybe I'll hammer out that Noir Planetary Romance idea I've had kicking around in the back of my head for a few years. We laugh but I'm pretty sure Neal Stephenson wrote Zodiac in a weekend. Then again, bulk word output has never been a weakness of Neal Stephenson. Pattern Ghost 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cancer Posted November 27, 2022 Report Share Posted November 27, 2022 Foo. That's the standard student modus operandi, albeit with "term ends" instead of "universe disintegrates". (If you didn't have that, then you'd have lots more students trying to disintegrate the universe.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted November 27, 2022 Report Share Posted November 27, 2022 4 hours ago, Old Man said: We laugh but I'm pretty sure Neal Stephenson wrote Zodiac in a weekend. Then again, bulk word output has never been a weakness of Neal Stephenson. A guy at the nanoboard said he had 3 million words written for the year which is like 270k a month CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted November 27, 2022 Report Share Posted November 27, 2022 1 minute ago, csyphrett said: A guy at the nanoboard said he had 3 million words written for the year which is like 270k a month There's got to be some point where quality suffers for quantity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted November 27, 2022 Report Share Posted November 27, 2022 1 minute ago, Pattern Ghost said: There's got to be some point where quality suffers for quantity. I have no idea because I have never seen him say if he posts things online. I knew a guy years ago who would post these stories that were novels but I don't think he did a basic check on them. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted November 28, 2022 Report Share Posted November 28, 2022 I was joking about hammering out 50k in five days, but I do have a slight itch to get back to writing. This wasn't the best November to for me to attempt a NaNoWriMo, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 29, 2022 Report Share Posted November 29, 2022 L. Marcus, BoloOfEarth, Pattern Ghost and 3 others 1 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted November 29, 2022 Report Share Posted November 29, 2022 Trying to crack the writathon. Only have like 2k left CES Pattern Ghost 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted November 29, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2022 You got this, csyphrett! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted December 1, 2022 Report Share Posted December 1, 2022 The writathon is done. Ended the story with the first Corvette being sent out to start cleaning up another sector of space from the automated space docks. Have to check to see if I have enough for the quartermilly. If I do, I can cruise the month of December. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted December 2, 2022 Report Share Posted December 2, 2022 Guys, a coworker told me some of my books from when I was loading things on Amazon is on goodreads. Apparently she is doing some kind of reading challenge. Makes me want to load other stuff on the program. CES Pattern Ghost and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 2, 2022 Report Share Posted December 2, 2022 43 minutes ago, csyphrett said: Guys, a coworker told me some of my books from when I was loading things on Amazon is on goodreads. Apparently she is doing some kind of reading challenge. Makes me want to load other stuff on the program. CES Where is the link? I can't find the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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csyphrett Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 10 hours ago, Old Man said: Where is the link? I can't find the link. https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=✓&query=carl+syphrett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 11, 2023 Report Share Posted October 11, 2023 So who's doing this writing thing this year? Now that I am retired, I can actually consider it. 50k words in 30 days. But there don't have to be equations or references! Hmmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted October 11, 2023 Report Share Posted October 11, 2023 I'm considering it. I'm not sure what my November will look like at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 11, 2023 Report Share Posted October 11, 2023 My problem as a fiction writer is that I think in scenes, and getting between those scenes can get pretty sparse. Ah well, as I heard said once in terms of RPG campaign arcs, if you don't have a plot, you can't have plot holes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted October 11, 2023 Report Share Posted October 11, 2023 You could always go back and fill in the sparse bits after getting all the key scenes down and getting to the end, should the word count come up short. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted October 11, 2023 Report Share Posted October 11, 2023 You can do like Chris Carter used to write the X Files and have index cards with scenes written on them, and just put them down for your writing as you go, Cancer. No one is going to say anything, and it's run on the honor system anyway. I don't know what I am going to do. Right now I am just trying to clock words for what I am already working on. I need another 275k to beat the 50/12 CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted November 1, 2023 Report Share Posted November 1, 2023 It has begun! First chapter started. Our hero has washed ashore. Because that's never been done before, amIright? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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