Action Scenes. Hard.
My first drafts of action chapters are about 500-1000 words. This is pitiful, and caused my outline spreadsheet to say my novel would come in short. So I sighed, and turned sentences into paragraphs. It’s now about 2000 words, which is still too short, but at...Sigh.
Action scenes are hard. Let’s do math instead!Unwelcome Bodies, by Jennifer Pelland
This anthology contains several stories I really love, including “Big Sister/Little Sister,” “Captive Girl,” and “The Last Stand of the Elephant Man.” I’m sure I’ll love the others just as much. Jennifer Pelland is made...Lizardfic stats
Current wordcount: 25,792 Goal wordcount: 80,000 Guesstimated final wordcount: 81,203 Percent of goal done: 32.24% Percent of guesstimate done: 31.76% At this rate, I’ll reach my goal on: 5/12/08 At this rate, I’ll finish my first draft on:...Uh oh…
I’m currently working on chapter seven. My writer’s group just critiqued chapters five and six. I think I need to write faster.Fear my geek-fu.
I found a missing angle bracket in the comment table template that was conflating the “not spam” and “empty” buttons on the spam comment listing on MT 4.1. Line 24 of comment_table.tmpl should read: title="<__trans phrase="Report...Web Dorking
I upgraded Movable Type to the latest version. It was a security thing. You shouldn’t notice a difference. It was pretty much painless aside from the part where fastcgi doesn’t work with the upgrade script. Once I figured that out all was love....Sale–“Grandfather Paradox”
“Grandfather Paradox” will appear in an upcoming issue of Electric Velocipede! Numfar, do the dance of joy!Lizardfic stats
Current wordcount: 19,833. Goal: 80,000. Average daily wordcount: 566. Average scene length in words: 2260. Guesstimated final wordcount: 85,880. Percent of goal completed: 24.79%. Percent of guesstimated final wordcount done: 23.09% At this rate, I’ll reach my...Subscribe
