megwrites

I think I should start posting macros or something whenever I make my wordcounts. If nothing else, to amuse people who are probably quite bored with my challenges and wish I would post something interesting once and a while.

But still, I have achieved 3616 words in three hours and thirty two minutes. Which is nothing to sneeze at. I think I'll go for a bonus round of 1000-1500 more words. Which means that I'm going to *try* for it, but if I don't get it - no shame.

Wordcount: Tower!Guy Story

52,731 / 100,000
(52.7%)

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: VAST - Lady of Dreams

Sorry, but I again thwart your attempt to taunt me a second time, slap me with trout, and otherwise make me feel bad. At last count, I've got a grand total of 30118 words for the day, which is well above the 2500 goal I set for myself. It's 3255 words, if my math is correct.

Wordcount: Tower!Guy Story

30,118 / 100,000
(30.1%)

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - When I Go

All right, dear readers. I had the world's most unproductive day yesterday - so I'm giving you all permission to smack me with dead trout and taunt me a second time if I don't get at least 2,500 words written by the time the day is up.

And I will be checking in.

So here's my current wordcount:

Wordcount: Tower!Guy Story

26,863 / 100,000
(26.9%)

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Music: Copeland - No One Really Wins

HAHAHAHA! You can call off the flogging. 'cause those 2000 words? Done and doner! You don't get to flog me, nyah nyah nyah.

It's a miracle what happens when you close your browsers, turn off everything else and just start typing, isn't it? I didn't feel that inspired, but damn if I didn't crank it out today. And I have a feeling I might be able to squeeze in some more words before the end of business.

Wordcount: Tower!Guy Story

18,282 / 100,000
(18.3%)

Current Mood: productive
Current Music: M. Ward - Sad, Sad Song

Okay, friends and Romans. My wordcount has been the suck over the last few days. You have my permission to flog me, beat me with dead trout, and taunt me a second time if I don't have this wordcount at least 2000 words up by the end of today.

Wordcount: Tower!Guy Story

16,276 / 100,000
(16.3%)

I'd use the "real life" card, but that would be shameful. And if I can't get around my minor personal issues to write, then I need to step out of this game right frakkin' now. Ugh.

Back to the salt mines for me.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Maroon 5 - Closer

Sometimes, watching other people make jackasses of themselves makes me feel tons better. Cruel, callous, I know. But it warms me to the cockles of my black little heart. Maybe even below the cockles. Maybe in the sub-cockle area. Maybe in the liver. Maybe in the kidneys. Maybe even in the colon. We don't know. [/denis leary].

And we wonder why people don't give SF/F its due respect.

You need to go read this man's exerpt. Seriously. In fact, go view his entire website (and yes, as every sharp-eyed reader of Miss Snark points out, he misspelled "metriculate").

Ten dollars to the first person who can tell me what in the sweet lovely hell is going on, because I had to read the first paragraph three times before I got past the completely nonsense terms.

Still, my enjoyment of this site (however mean-spirited) comes from the fact that I now look at my own work and go, "Wow. I am not the worst writer on Earth. I'm not even that close to the bottom anymore." And I was at a point in my life when I needed to be reminded of that.

Okay, I'm not even within sight of being the best or even really good. But I have, in the years I've been writing, made some kind of progress. I am not this bad. And this has a snowflake's chance of being published. Ergo, I have a little more chance of being published than a snowflake in the lower regions of Tartarus.

Good to know that.

But take my advice and bring the brainbleach, people. You're gonna need it when you read about the "essence of pilots".

And a wordcount to keep myself responsible:

Wordcount: Tower!Guy Story

13,914 / 100,000
(13.9%)

Wordcount: Fantasy Story Wot Has Wolves and Nonsense

2,525 / 100,000
(2.5%)

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: The Fray - Eleanor Rigby

Anyone ever seen Finding Nemo? Remember the charming, excellently voiced character of Dori (yes, I have a girl!crush on Ellen Degeneres).

Sometimes I think of writing as being in that net, with Dori and the other fish. And on one side you have this big powerful boat which is the force of entropy and Real Life and all the things that keep you from writing. Your inner editor, your distractions, your excuses.

On the other side you have all these little fish and Dori. They are the idea you have. The story you want to tell.

Real Life, excuses, the boat - they want to grab all those bits and pieces up and gobble them whole.

The fish don't want to get eaten. Duh.

But in the end, there's no special trick that the fish have. No clever McGyvering to do. No nifty little gadget. They just keep swimming. They flop and flop and swim and swim and they think only about the ocean, about getting one inch further.

That's writing. And you do that everyday. If you're not ready to fight that battle every day, then you're not ready for writing. If you're not ready to be all alone in the ocean, just you, the fish, and the boat - with nobody else there to help you or give you a kick in the pants or a compliment or a pat on the back - then you're not ready for writing.

Okay, sure. Somedays the fish have the boat tipped so fast you're not even sure what happened.

Somedays, the boat wins. Somedays, the boat *has* to win.

Or even worse. Somedays there's not even any fish in the net. And then that sucks all around.

But the point is that 6 days out of 7, the fish swim their little tails off and tip the boat and the net breaks and the story comes out. That's how you become a writer.

Because you sit down with your pen and paper (or computer) and you do it. Not because you can think nifty thoughts or go on forums or join communities. Not because you can talk the talk.

But because you just keep swimming.

I just sorta needed to say that.

And now, for a wordcount. I'm not going at the lightning fast pace with this project that I was with Revenant Blues (which is getting a new title). I've been on this for three and a half weeks and my progress? Not so much with the good.

Although, I console myself with the fact that I'm balancing another project and that overall, my wordcounts haven't been *that* bad.

Wordcount: Tower!Guy Story