Moar accountability

Yesterday's determined march towards my goal netted me a fairly respectable 3036 words, and most of the next chapter.

Today's goal is still at 5000 words, but also to get done with this chapter and move on into the next chapter.

I think one of my best ideas so far has been to go through a plot out, bit by bit, who's POV we're seeing through, and allowing myself to change POV in a chapter, so long as there's some sort of break to let the reader have a pause.

I have three POV characters, and I think mapping out when each person gets their turn to tell their bit of the story is useful. At the very least, it keeps me from jumping from viewpoint to viewpoint all over the place. And believe me, I will do that if left to my own devices.

So, right now the count stands at:


Tower!Guy Story editing, by wordcount

13,876 / 100,000 (13.9%)

Tower!Guy Story editing by chapters

3.8 / 20 (19.0%)

Worse than "passive" voice

I've just realized that I rely on the phrases "seemed like" and "as though" far too much in my writing.

Apparently, I have a hard time being decisive in my prose and committing to what the characters see, think, and do. Not sure why, but it's probably been weakening my writing all along.

Time to pull those weeds up by the root.

The only good part about not being madly in love with your story is that you can take a hacksaw to it and not feel bad.

I think maybe being good at editing is like being good at marriage. You can work with it when the mad passion has worn off and bills have to be paid and you realize that your One True Love has the world's most annoying snore. And if you're really good at it, you can even get up in the morning and say, "I love you" and still mean it.

Fortunately, my One True Love only snores a little and he brought me flowers last night and kissed my hand like I was a princess. Just because. Yes, yes, I know I'm spoiled rotten.

I'm also failing at my word count. Time to get back to rooting and hacksawing and what not.