July Novel Writing Month, And The Week In Review

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

                I signed up for JulNoWriMo a few days ago. I managed to catch my project up to the point where I could separate the story from the bible (*random cheering from the peanut gallery*), so I can keep the two separate. I will actually maintain word counts for both, because as I progress with the one, I shall also need the other to keep the story straight.
                I had started a picture of Daffodil in pencil, but the way it all came out, I am going to use it as the base for portraits of her, plus Dragan, plus Harald. Family members do tend to bear something of a resemblance, each to the other, so if I work with MS Paint on the base, to individualise each one, then voila!
I have also devised more ideas as to where to go with the first book. More specific ideas, at any rate, which is far better than the generalised ideas I had possessed towards the beginning.
                Of course, after the first book is written, I can start in right away on the second, and revise bits of the first as I go along as well. A trilogy always has three parts, and if I can complete the first revision of the first part, and the first draft of the second part simultaneously—well, let us just say that it is a Very Good Thing. I have read books that have ended up as parts of trilogies, and books in series that ended up confusing previous events a bit. If an event gets confuzzled in mine, then I would like the characters to do it. I dun'wanna, lol.

                That leaves one humongous question left to answer. Starting tomorrow, do I want to write 1667 words per day (approximate), or do I want to write 2500 words per day, five days per week, with two days off per week, for good behavior? Xp

Current:

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

20,017 / 70,017 - story

1,907 / 2,000 - glossary / bible

I am now ready for JulNoWriMo.

Current

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

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19,254 / 20,000 (96.3%)

WRITERS BIBLE
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1,838 / 2,000 (91.9%)

GRAND TOTAL:
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21,092 / 20,000 (105.5%)

The grand total reflects what I did when I combined the two totls, as I did for the previuos two months. If I can get the main part of the sstory up to 20k before the start of JulNoWriMo, then I only have to worry about the one word count for a base, and leave the reference out of the tally.

July WriMo

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

Okay, I am all signed up for July Novel Writing Month, or JulNoWriMo. I don't know if I'll be able to hit the 50k, considering that I barely made the 10k per month for the past two months, but we shall see. The 50k will not finish my novel, of course, even if I manage that much, but we shall see,

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

20,032 / 20,000
(100.2%)

Cheers!

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

19,256 / 20,000 (96.3%)

Update For The Day(?)

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

18,706 / 20,000 (93.5%)

I actually have 300+ more words written, but I need to rewrite the scene, because I ended up writing a scene that takes place immediately prior to it, and it worked a little too well, if you know what I mean. ;-)

Nexii?

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

          Do you know how hard it is to find out the Latin plural for (if any) for the word nexus? Bah. And yes, it does have something to do with what I'm writing. It won't hold me up too badly right now, because I'm not up to when the plural would be right useful to have, but I'll get to that point soon. I just posed the query to the writing list. I hope they have an answer for me.

Five Basic Facts

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

At the Barclay Funereal Home website, they had something on five basic facts about grief. I saved a copy, though I had to spell-check the darn thing. It had several errors. I let the editor out to play for a while. ;-) I mean, I have been though the process, and on more than one occasion, but it's something that bears repeating, because that's part of the burden of Necromancy, and will help me add some emotional details to the story. See, even if the protagonist is technically not dead, not his soul or spirit, anyway, there's still going to be that period of mourning. See, his human body's dead, he'll never return to it and, although his daughter's aware from circumstantial evidence that his spirit is trapped in an inanimate object because she paid attention to her Necromantic studies, both characters, as well as subsidiary ones who have absolutely no idea what transpired, everyone's going to grieve; and so will a lot of people at the beginning of the book, too, because of all the mysterious deaths that make it seem to them like the kingdom's cursed.

This Week In Review

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

          This week was not bad. Even if it was only yesterday, so far, I wrote about 5k. Next week, of course, I plan to do more writing.
          I have not set up a project planner or list, per se, but I have made progress on the writing front.

          "What are we going to do next week, Brain?"
          "The same thing we do every week, Pinky. Try to take over the world get some writing done."

          I'm working on it. ;-) Backing up my files, that is. I have to email current copies of  my WIP to myself.
          Oh, and my current virus scan shows that my system is clean.

Details, Details

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

History of Funeral Customs

                Yes, I have to look it up. I am trying to find some medieval funeral customs and the like, though I am also trying to find out some other details as well. I am probably also going to have to check renaissance custom, as well.
                I am also attempting to find technical details, like preparation of the body, yada, yada.
Funeral Consumer Guide. Embalming was done in the hoe, huh? Interesting.

Update 11 (absolute last one for today)

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

17,734 / 20,000 (88.7%)

So Far (Update 10)

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

17,172 / 20,000 (85.9%)

So Far (Update 9)

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

16,667 / 20,000 (83.3%)

So Far (Update 8)

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

16,265 / 20,000 (81.3%)

So Far (Update 7)

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

15,752 / 20,000 (78.8%)

Not easy, but progressing.

So Far (Update 6)

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

15,233 / 20,000 (76.2%)

So Far (Update 5)

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

14,716 / 20,000 (73.6%)

So Far (Update 4)-Cross-posted from LiveJuornal

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

14,196 / 20,000 (71.0%)

Not bad, so far. That's a bit over 2k written so far, today.

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Houir Three:

13,690 / 20,000 (68.5%)

I'm actually keeping better track on my MySpace account. Still, I had to post something here, formalities aside. You'd think I'd think of posting it here, first, but no... :rofl:

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

Thank Ghu a message came through on the weekend novelist's forum index. I had lost the site. Well, it's found again.

"Series"-ous Endeavor

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From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

                It's Changing Again.
                My series always does this to me. I think that I finally have the proper starting point. Then I start writing it. Then, bam! I realize that the story actually starts at an earlier point.
                Well, the rest of the story is for the prequel. This story starts here, and now, with what I am working on. At least, it segues so well into what I had actually wanted to be working on, except that that trilogy will be the second one in the series, and the one I am currently working on shall be the first one.
                Go, me.