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Friday, July 30, 2004

Day of Words Part 2: 4:40 pm

Lousy progress today, just under two thousand words so far. Fiona and I are meeting Fi's cousin and her vanload of friends sometime soon. They're on their way back from the snow, the lucky bastards, and we're putting them up for the night at the spare house (I love saying that, it makes us sound wealthy, although I'd rather sound wealthy by saying “My chalet at Thredbo”...but I digress).

The word count is over 80,000 and I think I can see the end in sight now. I have a more or less clear image of the plot points (or what passes for them in this mess) that I need to hit to get to the end of the story. It may get rather silly from here, as I'm pretty much just going to be wrapping things up as fast as possible. If it's been more difficult to write the second half of this story, it's because I've concluded that it needs to be completely restructured and quite possibly divided into two separate stories in the same setting (with some of the same characters). In other words, I don't have a lot invested in how this draft is going to turn out. Which is probably for the best, because there's no way it will get done otherwise.

But I think I can probably knock off another couple of thousand words if we don't go too late tonight, so I should be able to at least match yesterday's 4000. Channel 7 have done their bit to motivate me. I noticed last night that they had a “16 days to go” watermark in the corner of the screen during the Alias rerun – I interpreted that as a countdown to the Athens Olympics, which actually gives me more time to finish than I thought I had. But to be on the safe side, it would be nice if I were nearly done by Monday. So that's the plan at the moment.

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	Friday, July 30, 2004 Day of Words Part 2: 4:40 pm Lousy progress today, just under two thousand words so far. Fiona and I are meeting Fi's cousin and her vanload of friends sometime soon. They're on their way back from the snow, the lucky bastards, and we're putting them up for the night at the spare house (I love saying that, it makes us sound wealthy, although I'd rather sound wealthy by saying “My chalet at Thredbo”...but I digress). The word count is over 80,000 and I think I can see the end in sight now. I have a more or less clear image of the plot points (or what passes for them in this mess) that I need to hit to get to the end of the story. It may get rather silly from here, as I'm pretty much just going to be wrapping things up as fast as possible. If it's been more difficult to write the second half of this story, it's because I've concluded that it needs to be completely restructured and quite possibly divided into two separate stories in the same setting (with some of the same characters). In other words, I don't have a lot invested in how this draft is going to turn out. Which is probably for the best, because there's no way it will get done otherwise. But I think I can probably knock off another couple of thousand words if we don't go too late tonight, so I should be able to at least match yesterday's 4000. Channel 7 have done their bit to motivate me. I noticed last night that they had a “16 days to go” watermark in the corner of the screen during the Alias rerun – I interpreted that as a countdown to the Athens Olympics, which actually gives me more time to finish than I thought I had. But to be on the safe side, it would be nice if I were nearly done by Monday. So that's the plan at the moment. 0 smartarse remarks Post a Comment 0 Comments:

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