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Reply Subj: Proceed Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 at 11:38:52 am EST (Viewed 2 times) | |||||||
Quote: At this stage, my best advice would be to just write, write, write. The discipline is more important than the content just now. You're good at distilling and revising later. Now you need the impetus to keep at the keyboard. 6000 words a week minumum = 1 novel in 12 weeks (allowing for 15% to get cut plus another 10 weeks of additional drafts). Proving to yourself that you can deliver that, a satisying stand-alone whole with start, middle, and finish, in your developed style, is an important rite of passage.That all depends how motivated I am. I've been known to write 6000+ words in one night if I really have a story stuck in my head and wants out. If I'm average motivated, I have a decent story going and I'm chipping away at it, probably 2000 words or so a night. But, when I have an un-motivated story i'm trying to move along and finish up, sometimes I'll start slogging through it and get maybe 1000 words or less. This started happening with those PV stories I mentioned that weren't turning out well because I didn't feel motivated, and actually dreaded posting it and no one noticing anyway for all that work. I also have been doing some non-posted story design. Stuff you won't see on my web site because they are supposed to come out in other ways. Like scripting a European comic a friend draws, called Girls in White. And writing a story for a unique 3D adventure game, if the fates will let me put together the resources necessary to actually get it produced. You'd like the game, it's a murder mystery, only you're the one who gets murdered, 10 minutes in. There's another "object" in the room you're killed in that becomes aware, and you control that character to solve your own murder. But you can't "play god" and just go back with character #2 and revisit all the same people you did with character #1, because the nature of character #2 makes people really uncooperative. | |||||||
