I'm happy to say that I've written over 4000 words and deleted many as well this week (yay!). It's been crazy, but since it's mostly re-writing and editing, I feel pretty dang good about it.
SHOUT OUT to Elana J and Christine F for their awesome Weeks-In-Writing! :D You guys make me look like a slacker! Good on ya!
Here are some of my favorite writer quotes to aid us in the upcoming week's work:
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma. In the afternoon, I put it back in." --Oscar Wilde (My week in a nutshell!)
"The business of the poet and novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things, and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things."--Thomas Hardy
"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public."--Winston Churchill
And lastly, because I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of a new book this week:
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."--C S Lewis
Happy Wednesday!
2 comments:
Good for you! I am in the same process and while I cut so much out I rewrite just as much if not more! I am only on Chapter 9 and around 40,000 words! I haven't even finished my book one transitions PLUS I still have another book to fit in! I want to stay under 100,000 because it's an adult fantasy, but fantasy's also have higher word counts so I dunno, we'll see!
I'm glad your enjoying it and your good at it! Some days are harder for me, but I push through doing at least one chapter a day! It's nice to look back and think-damn that sounds so much smoother! haha! Great update girl keep getting it done! It's gonna pay off!
Thanks, Sara! I really appreciate the encouragement ;)!
Man, it sounds like you are tearing it UP over there with your WIPs--totally impressive! By the way, I think you can go as high as 120,000 with fantasy without blinking an eye, so no worries. Whenever I pick up a big, fatty fantasy novel I think "Mmm, Value."
(Does anyone else have "I like Big Books and I cannot lie" running through their head to the tune of "baby got back? Cause I do...)
Best of luck to you, too!
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