12.10.07
Temporally Strained
Well, no better sign than to start off with the now-obligatory Harvesting Blueberries Update: The Twitter feed is a lie. 96K words is correct, yes, but now I’m up to 10 scenes left to write. Given an average of about 2,000 words per scene, this works out well. I just have to remind myself to take my time and let the conversations flow naturally; there’s no longer a real rush, story-wise or externally, and skimping now will just make it harder later.
I take that back, there is sort of an external rush. Anyone who ever tells you being a writer is easy work is lying. I’ll be in dire need of a vacation once this draft is finished. Fortunately, I’ve been trickling through a couple of anime series here and there in order to have a rolling start once the draft is done… but that’s still at least a solid week of writing away. Maybe. Depends on how much I can manage these next few evenings and this coming weekend– the last weekend I’ll have before Christmas break, actually. But, well, I’m this close. I’m not going to give up now.
I also want to try to manage one more Game Clear notice before the year is up, but that might be something I do over the break itself, or more likely over New Year’s Weekend. Two long binges are incoming, and I’m really looking forward to them.
Ciao, folks. We’ll probably have Bailout tomorrow.
Ismail Saeed said,
12.10.07 at 9:05 am
Gee, I wonder which series (plural) you are trickling through. (whistles innocently)