Do Not Read This Title

Time from idea to starting the story...

[14:21] * Lyrenhasnothingtowrite is so not goig to write about vampires
[14:22] <Chicky389> don't you do it!
[14:22] <Lyrenhasnothingtowrite> no
[14:22] <Lyrenhasnothingtowrite> werewolves are cute
[14:23] <Chicky|389> unless they actually feed on humans and stuff
[14:23] <Lyrenhasnothingtowrite> oh
[14:23] <Lyrenhasnothingtowrite> noooooooooooooooooooooo
[14:23] <Lyrenhasnothingtowrite> bugger
[14:23] <GameBot> 10 minute Word War will start in 2 minutes
[14:23] * Lyrenhasnothingtowrite is now known as Lyrenhatesvampires
[14:24] <Lyrenhatesvampires> !name f
[14:24] <GameBot> Mui
[14:24] <GameBot> Word War will start in 30 secs
[14:24] <Moridin> Dracula is cool.
[14:25] <GameBot> Word War will start in 10 secs
[14:25] <GameBot> 10 minutes go! 2:35

(snip part where internet connection spits it and I have to beat it with the Big Stick)

[14:41] <GameBot> STOP!
[14:41] <Lyren> 120
[14:41] <Lyren> SFF vampire-wannabee serial killer

I redid my word count chart and graph to be more useful i.e. to show where I am (blue) in relation to where I should be (white). I thought I was getting behind but it seems I'm still ahead.

Last year, on the 29th of October I wrote:

( End of October )

On the 29th November, I wrote:

( end of November )

I need some encouragement. See - plateau! :(


Monday I was supposed to start 3rd book/long story thingy. And I did have this sort of thing with three characters, and the first few scenes and the main conflict that I thought would be enough to get me through another 30K (although it was historical (eep) fantasy with a werewolf (eep)). So I start writing and I have about 200 words of it done, but then I have this odd little conversation on IRC that set off a really vague but interesting idea. I watched TV for a bit. Then grumbled about word counts on Twitter to a friend, and she made a fairly benign comment. But that comment met up with the vague idea and, well, my 200 words already written looked suddenly very dull so I deleted it and started this other thing.

Minor problem there in that I only had enough of an idea to get me through the first 2000 words, and it's set in Melbourne 1880. Sort of. Which of course I know nothing about.

But hey, I wrote 5000 words on it today (for a total of 125,000). It's just taking the idea of "making it up as I go" to a level. I can handle that.




Although what would really help is a list of events in SE Australia in 1879 so I can give my something to do while they're saving the world as we know it. Otherwise, they might end up sitting at home watching the fire the whole time.

I have pretty world count graph!



92,456 or something like that.

Now I go to bed and not think about tomorrow.

I'll keep updating because it keeps me honest, and I think my World Count graph looks funny :)

I'm only allowed to write 2200 words a day:

Day 6: 2259
Day 7: 2392

I was on 2000 and they started another Word War so I ended up writing a bit more. That is allowed though.

Total: 54720

After first world count update of the day... it isn't really curving.






(White is where I should be, blue is where I am and black is where I want to be)

I managed 10,000 words today. Not sure what happened there.

But I'm going to bed early because I am wroted out and I have some hope of getting up early to get some more done before I have to go out.

And yes, I am using last year's icons. I don't like this year's.



My World Count Graph!

I haven't posted my graph lately!

34110 so far.

Had a bad patch today (heading rapidly towards the area of "Delete everything") but I was informed quite definitely that leaving a character just about to be shot was Not Good and I should go back and fix the situation now. Any protests by me that he was fictional, so it didn't well bloody matter were ignored. And then they brought in another 3 characters, one of whom is muttering that she wants to be a regular.

Meanwhile, in my until now well-behave story, the MC has gone off to live in another town entirely. Eh?

I have two problems

Problem 1:

How would you try to prove someone is not a ghost?

Problem 2:

"After dark, we should go and visit Jimmy."
I must have looked surprised, because he grinned. "We have to tell Jimmy how we're going to help him escape."
"Jack, we don't know."
He shrugged. "We'll know by then."

I'll have to know too. Um. Help? (He's in chain, in a cell. In them morning he'll be taken on board a ship to the town for trial.) They need a plan tonight that they'll carry out the next day.