Comments on: Oh no, not again…

By: plegmund

plegmund — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:57:56 +0000

I just go with 2,000 words per chapter – it doesn’t work out, but it gives me a baseline.

Last year I had quite a lot of detail ready about what was going to happen in each chapter – much less this year, though some bits will be alright.

I just can’t believe the start is so close.

By: Capt. R.

Capt. R. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:59:56 +0000

Thanks to the boss being away today, I now have an outline, with a rough word count on how long each ‘chapter’ should take. I’m a little concerned in that the first episode is going to be 10-15K long, which seems inordinately long just to, you know, set things in action.

Enh. We’ll see. At least I now have something resembling a road map. That’s more than I had last year — which was just an outline with no associated word count to stick to. Hopefully, this means I won’t have to insert another 10,000 word dream sequence again.

By: plegmund

plegmund — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:22:15 +0000

Thanks, 2bsirius – good luck! ‘The Shadow Map’ is what you’re going to be doing? If you’re posting the text, I’ll look in on that.

(I am Plegmund – silly name, but I’m sort of stuck with it)

By: 2bsirius

2bsirius — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:37:41 +0000

I’m a faithful reading of your principal blog, Consciousentities, and I was so pleased to see that you would be attempting NaNoWrimo this year. I’m going to try it myself under the name 2bsirius. I assume you are plegmund there. I’ll be checking on your progress occasionally, if I can spare the time away from my own daily word count demands.

VERY BEST OF LUCK!

By: plegmund

plegmund — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:06:07 +0000

I’m sort of pleased that you’re doing a sequel, Captain – I look forward to reading it (not that I wouldn’t have looked forward to reading something totally different).

I have managed to get a bit of planning in over the last few days or so, but I’m still not as ready as I was last year.

By: Capt. Renault

Capt. Renault — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:27:05 +0000

I’m not any further ahead. I know where things have to start and end up, a couple of events along the way, the unifying themes and underlying imagery, but really — I have no idea how all of this will fit together at all.

Most importantly, though, I’ve yet to reread last year’s effort. If this one is going to be a more-or-less sequel to the last, remembering what happened in the first book is a fairly crucial matter.

I do like saying ‘Book the Second’ a lot. Gives it this import that it probably doesn’t merit. Enh.