We interrupt this sci-fi retelling of Romeo & Juliet to bring you a quick jaunt back to the nativity. More on Monday, and possibly a bonus Christmas episode. Possibly not. It depends if I think of anything. Find out next week!
I’m having ‘second Christmas’ this weekend, not to be confused with ‘first Christmas’ last weekend, or ‘third Christmas’ this coming Tuesday. Apparently most people are only going for celebrating the third Christmas. Silly people.
In other news, today I passed the two-thirds finished mark on my novel. Currently I’m on precisely 66,800 words. I anticipate that there will be a few days over the next week where I won’t have time for writing (or perhaps the hand-eye coordination) but I will definitely be in the early 70,000 words. Once I’m past that, I’ve got the downhill sprint towards narrative resolution and happiness.
A slightly more significant landmark should also be noted – it took me around seven years to write my PhD thesis, which ended up being 72,829 words long. In a week, I may have written the longest thing I’ve ever constructed, and all in just over two months. I’m not quite sure what that implies about factual discussions, the quality of the writing, or anything else. Please feel free to speculate with the comments box! (I promise I won’t ban you for being cheeky… Probably MWAHAHAHA. Ahem.)
Anyway, have a lovely weekend. Please remember to vote for my comic using the button on the right. See you on Monday!
First Christmas last weekend? That’s silly! Jess & I are having first Christmas this weekend, then second Christmas on Tuesday, and third Christmas will be the weekend after!
I’ll try and remember to think of you when we’re having third Christmas and you’re already halfway to Easter… 😉
Easter? No, I’m on to the harvest festival by then.
Ha! 😀 Ah, the old ones are the best.
But Kerry: if I have second Christmas with you, my husband will never forgive me! Plus my parents are coming for dinner. (This weekend is still on, but we’ll have to be careful. I’ll meet you behind the ASDA at midnight. I’ll be in disguise. This is madness, you know. Madness!)
I can only speculate, Mata, that the novel’s a doozy and you’re flying. 🙂 Go man, go!
So there’s this Dickens Challenge going on in which you may or may not be interested– a bunch of writers doing a “chapter-a-week” type thing. I haven’t joined in, but there’s some nifty writing coming out of it. Kinda fun to read.
Merry Christmoose!
Ah, the classic story of lovers arranging to meet behind ASDA through comments on a webcomic. Star crossed doesn’t even begin to describe it.
I’m writing a minimum of 1,000 words per day, usually I do around 1,300. I’ve only occasionally had to force myself to write when I was at difficult bits, but doing that meant I got past them more quickly and so they didn’t block my progress.
I’d like to join in with something like the Dickens Challenge, my chapters are around 5,000 words so I could easily do it, but I’m hoping to get the novel published when it’s done (and edited, of course). Publishing it on the internet would seriously hamper the chances of a deal, so I’ll be keeping it to myself.
A wise decision. I’d like to do it too, but I’m a bit nervous about rights issues myself (most of which, mind you, I don’t understand to begin with). I only ever put fiction on the web if I don’t mind it being a sort of “throwaway” thing for amusement purposes.
Although you always have copyright, it’s far harder to assert on the web than in physical media, so it’s best to avoid putting anything online that you want to make profit from in any other way.
I’ve just done my writing for the day, so the new total is 67,915. It was a tricky bit, so I’m glad to be past it!