1.31.2009

The Meter

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1.30.2009

Connecting the Dots

I managed to link the new material I've been writing to older material, and at least for a little while, should be able to sail through a little faster. The end of today's count.

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1.29.2009

Today's Work

Hard to explain how I got further from the end today. Will likely be cutting out a bunch of pages tomorrow, so by the end of day tomorrow I'm hoping to see some progress.

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Word Count

I found this geeky word counter to help me keep track of where I'm at with the latest rewrite of my next novel. It will likely only depress me, seeing how much more I have to go, and how slow the progress is, but you never know. The idea is to post it every day... we'll see how that goes.

Both the words completed and the target will change, as I add or delete material...

This was what I started at today.

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1.09.2009

How to Structure your Novel

Yesterday evening, I had the occasion to sit next to a very prolific, well-published NW fiction writer. He had with him a classic book written for girls, which, given his tough-guy reputation, one would not expect him to have. I asked him what the book was for. He said, "Oh, it's the structure of my next novel."

This seemed like something I should have thought of before, using the structure of a simply-written book to structure my own work, and so I asked him if he did this before writing all his novels. He didn't answer me directly, rather he said, "it allows me to focus on the content."

Given my own recent struggles with structure, I wonder if this isn't sage advice for just about anyone.

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