Thursday, May 15, 2008

Lengthy outline

I have decide that I will finish what I now call my lengthy outline by June 15th. I hope to have an idea what going to happen through out Keep Faith by that point. I plan to have write a outline of about 30,ooo+ words for an 75000 length novel. This mean I need to write about 1000 words a day.
Right now I'm working toward the "New Situation" part of the outline plot. I just need to write a few more scenes and then I start to create obstacles for my hero and heroine to over come until I get to the "point of no return." lol have no clue what these obstacles are but hopefully I come up with something.

So that my writing plan for now

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

run for your lives!

Thank you Amanda for posting about sprint writing! I wrote 1020 words tonight!
Anyway here an update

Title:Keep Faith
New words: 1020
How many people ran off today: 2. Will and Mary are running for thier lives well at least for his.
Mary: Is helping Will escape.
Will: Wondering how he got stuck with the crazy woman.
sample:
“Woman! What are you doing?” he asked. She didn’t answer instead she moved her arms in a movement that told him to hurry back through the window. Once he climbed through, she ran back across the court yard. He decided to follow but he had a lot of questions.

Sprint Writing!

Well this greenhorn at sprint writing finally wrote with some ladies from endurance writing group at Yahoo. I only wrote with them for 30 minutes since I joined the chat late last night but I wrote 490 words.
A few things I discovered while writing.
1. This story is a YA novel.
2. The bad guy of the scene think the heroine is dumb.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

some thoughts

First thought is I don't like the new name of my blog... I changed it earlier because I thought Writer of an Unfinished Novel sounded negative. I want to write about how I write a novel from start to finish. Then about the adventure that happen after.

Second thought is I wrote about 150 words today. I'm glad I wrote at all. I'm sick with a running nose, a cough, and can't hear (worse then normal). So I'm on meds so it not as bad as it was.

Third thought is I was going to try this book in a week thing that the girls over at First Edition started last week but I think I'll wait until I'm finish with my meds before I start that. The basic of the idea is to write 200 pages in a week. Maybe if I try this idea I can make it to the dreaded middle of my story or at least get a lot more then 100 words written a day.

Fourth thought is.... I have no clue about the ending of my story or the middle for that matter! This is a first for me in a long.. long time. I have normally have parts of my story in my head. I write the ending hoping that I'll one day write the rest of the story to met the ending but that never happened. So maybe it's a good thing that I don't have a clue what going to happen next. Yeah that what bothering me I don't know what going to happen next.

Right now in my story I'm trying to explain the heroine's world. She in with the wrong crowd so to speak and starting to realize it. I'm still in the beginning.

OK Fifth and last thought lol is about two posts over at 70 days of sweat.
The first one is "Oh How very appropriate."
It's about taking a risk in your writing and how the writer feel that the story she working on only make sure to her at the moment. I feel that way about my story too.
OK the other post is "Why I write."
It's about writing the book you want to read. lol Now I have always thought this was a good idea and that I was trying to write the story I wanted to read but it turn out I was just trying to rewrite the stories I have read. Now for the first time I really do feel like I'm writing a story I want to read because I've yet to see it on the bookstore bookshelf.
Scary!

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

a little bit more

My report so far.

Title: Keep Faith
yesterday's words: 500+
today's words: 100+
Mary: Well I'm writing more on the mob scene.
Will: He's coming to the rescue.
The number of people running away: Between the two different scenes I wrote 7 people ran away, a group of children and Mary.
Sample of text: Fulled with anger Mary think What do these snot nose people think they are doing?"

Sunday, April 13, 2008

hand written page

so today I wrote in my notebook so I don't know the exact number of words I wrote. I believe 300+

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Anything you can do I can do better!

anything you can do, I can do better.
I can do anything better than you.
No you can't.
Yes I can.
No you can't.
Yes Ican.
No you can't.
Yes I can, yes I can!

These lyrics have been running though my head all day! I think it from Annie Get Your Gun..... Yes, it from Annie Get Your Gun. I just asked one of my music crazy friends. Now he singing the song at the top of his lungs. LOL anyway. I wrote some more today.

Title: Keep Faith
Today's words: 366
Mars/Mary: just attacked her own hair. It's cut pretty close to her head.
Will: Can only stare.