The big storm that was supposed to hit today and dump 15-25 cm of snow isn’t happening after all. We might get 5 cm and that’s all. The storm is tracking south of us, which was the original route it was to take. Yeah!!! We didn’t need all that white stuff.
Better progress on the writing front
I actually made progress on my manuscript last night. I started out with 91395 words and ended with 91729, an increase of 334 words. Whether or not it stays or hits the cutting room floor remains to be seen but I had my butt in the chair and words were flowing.
Last Night’s Writing
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.
Last night’s accomplishment… or lack thereof
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.
The Purge
Well, the first purge was 2568 words. And there’s more to take out still. But will worry about that later.
Great Day on the Writing Front
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?
Another Successful Writing Date
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.
And yet another alternate title for Sarah’s Gift
While showering this morning, an epiphany struck me. Why not rename Sarah’s Gift to Shadows of the Past?
Another Writing Date
Tomorrow, I’m meeting the same gals as last month for another writing date. We found it extremely beneficial to be out of our usual writing environment… and being in the company of fellow writers we managed to accomplish a great deal.
Looking forward to another afternoon of creativeness and inspiration.
Now must let the laptop charge so it doesn’t run out of juice in the midst of a writing revelation.
More alternate titles for Sarah’s Gift
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.