Well the extent of last night’s writing amounted to what I wrote on my blog. Good thing I’ve got some ideas percolating up the gray matter. Hopefully, tonight I’ll get them from up there down the arms and out the fingers and into my document.
We’ll see what this evening brings.
Well, I did a major purge which put my word count down to 91309. ACK! I had to go out after supper so didn’t take a lot of time to write but managed to get a few words down… very few. I ended with 91395… a mere 86 words. Still on the positive side so that’s a good thing.
Have ideas percolating… just deciding on how best to get them from the grey matter onto paper.
In the meantime, the laptop needs to charge so will ponder where I’m heading while it does that.
In addition to the 800 words I wrote in a separate file yesterday (and now merged into the main manuscript file), I’ve added another 702, give or take. I deleted some but added more but overall my word count is up 1502 from the last time I recorded my progress here when I believe I was at 92360. Words in… words out… not huge numbers but enough. Anyway, I’m sitting at 93877 right now. Yesterday, during my writing date, I added some words to the original manuscript before moving on to start a separate file.
Now it’s time for a major purge. So we’ll see where I end up. Not sure yet how many words will vanish but it will be a good chunk. Hopefully, I’ll still be in a plus situation but I have my doubts.
But it’s the new words that count not the ones I delete, right?
Back home from another successful writing date with two of the gals in my local group. It’s amazing what we manage to get accomplished when we’re away from our usual environment. I worked on scene(s) from my novel in a separate document since I’m not 100% certain where I’m going to insert it. The other, I only wrote a couple of lines – again for the same reason.
In addition to my novel work, I made a start on the monthly 250 word prompt. So in total my word count today is… 15 (main novel file), 743 (scenes), and 249 (prompt) for a whopping total of 1007 from about 1:o0 to 3:15. That’s about 400 words better than I accomplished on our first writing date and I was pleased with those results so you can imagine how chuffed I am with these.
And best of all, I remembered my epiphany from this morning and mentioned my title idea to them. They both loved it.
All in all, a good day on all accounts.
While showering this morning, an epiphany struck me. Why not rename Sarah’s Gift to Shadows of the Past?
A friend came up with four more alternate titles for Sarah’s Gift. When and if it comes time to choose a different title for my girl and it comes from one of the ones on my lists (I know who has suggested what), they will be mentioned in the acknowledgements of my book as being the one who came up with the title. That’s why I said in my earlier post about alternate titles, it was a contest of sorts.
The latest additions are:
Doubtful Destiny
A Date with Destiny
Forever After
Dreams of Yesterday
Pretty good eh? After all, we’re talking time-travel going back in time.
Last September when I pitched to an agent (unsuccessfully), she told me my story sounded fun but that the title didn’t do it justice. Well, since it began its life as a short story about ten/eleven years ago, it’s always been known as Sarah’s Gift.
Here is a list of alternate ideas suggested by writers in the groups I belong to. So, how about some input as to which one(s) you like the best? A contest if you will, to determine the title for my first novel.
Weetshill Revisited
Dreams and Consequences
Reality or Make Believe
Lost in Time
Time Lost
Yearning for Home
To Dream of Love
The Lady of Weetshill
A Time of Splendour
In the Eye of the Beholder
Smoke and Mirrors
Fast Falls the Eventide
Deja Vu
Perception of Reality
Perchance to Dream
Paradise Postponed
Tread Softly on Dreams
Dreams of Desire
Flickering Shadows
Rendezvouz with Destiny
Lost Bride
Lost in Time
Sarah’s Journey
The Reluctant Bride
The Time-Travel Bride
A Dangerous Proposal
Weetshill Manor
The Winds of Weetshill
Moonlight at Weetshill
The Craigs of Aberdeen
The Girl of Weetshill Manor
Moonlight over Aberdeenshire
Sarah of the Hills
Sarah of Aberdeen
I managed 134 words yesterday. Not many but still keeping my butt in the chair and working. I did manage to find that pesky bit that I wasted some writing time looking for. I did have it in twice so deleted the second occurrence. So lost some words there.
Hopefully today will be a productive one. My opening number for today is 91909 words. We’ll see where I end up.
I started last night at 91619 words and finished with 91775 – an increase of 156 words. Not a lot of words but I ended up skimming over the same passage looking for something that I was certain was still there but I must have deleted it. I wanted to move it to a different spot further along in the scene.
In the end, I put it back in from memory. It was only a single line of dialogue.
As I said last night, I had a dyslexic moment when I recorded my last word count the other night. I had written down 91542 words. You can imagine my dismay when I opened the document last night and it only read 91452. The only good thing is, it makes my efforts from last night look more impressive. When I called it quits last night with a fried brain, my word count was 91619. Still not as many words as I’ve been able to peel off in some nights and I didn’t get to the scene that I intended working on but I’m getting there.
I decided to work my way to it rather than jump to it and have to go back and make sure my ducks were in a row, the plot bunnies lassoed etc.