headspace filled up
Sep. 19th, 2016 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aryanhwyThis novel started the 2nd to the last day of conferencing in Melbourne, when during one of the keynote talks I sketched a face and started writing, and I haven't really stopped since then, though it's gotten worse in the last few weeks -- I hit my New Year's Resolution goal on the 5th, and since then my brain has been like "whoo! go academic Sara, go you, you did it! Now: Do this instead!" So here I am, writing a novel instead of any of the papers I should be writing; but I learned long ago that I will be may more productive if I follow this out rather than try to ignore it.
I've been paginating sequentially, but "p47" doesn't mean I've written 47, it means I've written closer to 50-55, because some of the pages have branched to, e.g. "36a", "36b", "36c", before I realize that I'm not coming back, yet, to where I branched and I start over with the next number.
47+ handwritten pages.
18200+ words.
Formatted so it looks like a paperback book, because I need to be able to see the physical shape of the story to know if the tempo is right, 103 pages (including table of contents, list of citations, and bibliography).
18 chapters in full draft, covering 8 days of story. Another 5 chapters have snippets in them.
I have, for the most part, been writing sequentially: I started at the beginning, and went forward. Except there was one scene that I knew I needed, even though it was in the future, and I wrote that; and then I wrote sequentially from the beginning and from that scene. Late last night, I joined the two lines up, and am now working forward from a single point. At first I worried I had too little to say; now, I am 100 pages in and I feel like the whole of the story is still before me. I am happy with how things are going, and for the first of any fiction writing project I've ever done, I can see how to get it to being finished.
Don't worry, mom, you'll get a copy of it soon enough. :)
I've been paginating sequentially, but "p47" doesn't mean I've written 47, it means I've written closer to 50-55, because some of the pages have branched to, e.g. "36a", "36b", "36c", before I realize that I'm not coming back, yet, to where I branched and I start over with the next number.
47+ handwritten pages.
18200+ words.
Formatted so it looks like a paperback book, because I need to be able to see the physical shape of the story to know if the tempo is right, 103 pages (including table of contents, list of citations, and bibliography).
18 chapters in full draft, covering 8 days of story. Another 5 chapters have snippets in them.
I have, for the most part, been writing sequentially: I started at the beginning, and went forward. Except there was one scene that I knew I needed, even though it was in the future, and I wrote that; and then I wrote sequentially from the beginning and from that scene. Late last night, I joined the two lines up, and am now working forward from a single point. At first I worried I had too little to say; now, I am 100 pages in and I feel like the whole of the story is still before me. I am happy with how things are going, and for the first of any fiction writing project I've ever done, I can see how to get it to being finished.
Don't worry, mom, you'll get a copy of it soon enough. :)
