1120 words. The world may be getting me down, but I’m keeping the wordcount going.
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7,850 / 67,500
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I’ve cracked 10%. Progress is good…
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Day 7: Born Under a Bad Sign
925 words. Not bad for a Sunday morning. I’m advancing forward slowly, and making a few interesting discoveries as I go. It’s all shambolic first draft stuff… but there’s some stuff I like here.
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6,730 / 67,500
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Briefly gave myself a heart attack when the percentage on the wordcount came up as zero- and then realised I’d added an extra zero to the total. There’s a bit of a difference between 67,500 words and 675,000 words…
Day 6: Galaxy Bounce
1016 words. And all before 11am. I’m definitely a morning writer.
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5,805 / 67,500
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On top of this, I managed, yesterday, to crack a problematic scene in The Hypernova Gambit that I’d been struggling with for ages. It’s not perfect yet, but it’s feeling like it’s actually starting to work. I had to basically strip it down to its essentials- instead of getting distracted with lots of surface details, just looking at what the sequence is doing, and get rid of anything else that isn’t absolutely necessary for that. I may not have finished the rewrite, but I’m a little bit closer to the end.
Hooray!
New League! New League!
Let’s forget about the film. One of the most genuinely enjoyable and rewarding comic books in years, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is also one of the most frustratingly irregular. Both the first and second volumes took an eternity to come out from DC/Wildstorm, and the latest volume- the thoroughly intriguing ‘Black Dossier’- has been delayed more times than I can count. It might be coming out in February/March- but I’m not holding my breath.
Now, however- thanks to comic god Alan Moore finally cutting ties with DC, and the fact that the League is completely creator-owned, there’s a third volume of the series coming out from Top Shelf/Knockabout, the people who handled From Hell and Lost Girls. It’s not due out until 2008 (and anyone want to bet that date’ll change?) but it sounds utterly fantastic. Story details below, from the relevant page on Top Shelf’s website…
Day 5: Early Start
Okay. That wasn’t as hard as I was expecting. It’ll get harder, but for the moment, I think I’m doing okay with this…
Words: 1,024
Progress on FLIPSIDE
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4,789 / 67,500
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I’m over 5% in. I’ve almost cracked 5000 words. Gosh…
Day 4: Dazed and Confused
Okay, the subbing is over. I’ve got seven days booked for the beginning of April, which helps massively. I’m doing well with the manuscript reading work I’ve got at the moment. Plus… (drum roll….)
909 new words. All in longhand, on a notebook, while I was on my way to and from London.
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3,765 / 67,500
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I have no idea what I’ll have when I’ve finished this. I might have to go through this just to look at what I’ve written and go- “No, I really can’t write like this, can I?” At least this way, it only takes 90 days, and I can see what writing every single day turns out like. And while I have a plan for the first half of the book, I’ve no idea exactly where it’s going to end up, so I think that when things start going crazy, they’re going to go REALLY crazy…
Hopefully tomorrow will be a little calmer.
(Sleep soon…)
Day Three
Tired. Long day. Not up to writing much. But, despite a train journey and a day’s work subbing…
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2,856 / 67,500
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Question is- can I manage this tomorrow, as well?
Day Two (aka: The Honeymoon Is Over)
Why am I trying to write a novel that starts off in a normal Secondary School? I really didn’t like school that much. I’m not even sure I remember what it’s like to be a teenager. I’ve already started getting weird and trippy in order to make up for the fact that I can’t cope with writing about normal school life. I’m going to keep up the wordcount, but I have the horrible feeling this might turn into a nightmarish slog. (Ah, optimism.)
Anyhow:
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2,078 / 67,500
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Attack of the Disco Indians
Just found this on Making Light – a quite terrifying cover version of 50’s surfer anthem ‘Apache’ apparently from Danish pop king Tommy Seebach. It starts wrong, and then proceeds into a whole new universe of wrongness.
My eyes! It burnssss!!!!!
And I leave you with a Making Light quote:
If the War on Drugs people had a lick of sense, they’d buy up the rights and reissue it with THIS IS WHAT A PERMISSIVE DRUG CULTURE WILL DO TO YOU neatly lettered at the top of the screen.
Morning Glory
The First Day.
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1,134 / 67,500
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I may not have an idea where it’s going, but I’m happy to have at least gotten this far.
(Now, I must go and do a victory roll…)
Saxon Bullock 