Archive for November, 2009
Writing a Novel – Done!
Final official word count: 51,480 words!
It was harder than expected towards the end, especially since I slacked a on the 18th-20th, and on the penultimate weekend.
However, it was definitely within the realm of possibility. Especially now that it has helped me realize some important improvements to the ‘Project’ target calculations.
Before I started this grueling [...]
Writing a Novel – Day 16
Wow, with all this novel-writing, I kind of skimped out on the blog updates!
Anyway, I’m still here and still going strong.
The targets I’ve had have helped me to ease into this nicely.
I will say that there are several tweaks and improvements I will be making to the ‘project’-type algorithms as a result of this extensive [...]
Writing a Novel – Day 4
I have just emerged from a battle with my inner critic. Victorious!
I usually would slowly write a paragraph, read over what I just wrote. Or read everything from page one. Then I would sit until I thought of how to phrase the next bit. But there was finally a distinct moment when I realized I [...]
Writing a Novel – Day 1
As vowed, I have begun my novel today.
I had absolutely no plan until the day before.
But then, in a flash of inspiration, I came up with my plot.
It starts out shamelessly autobiographical (basically, it’s me and my current situation almost verbatim), but will slowly build up to some crazy science fiction occurrences.
Some notes about HabitShaper [...]