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dreaminghopeStats:
Hours: 22.5
Words: 22,634
Pages: 110
Music: A Prairie Home Companion - "Original Motion Picture Sountrack" (twice, or was it three times?); Bif Naked - "Purge".
Fuel: Double-long-shot iced mocha and a lot of chocolate-covered-almonds.
I wrote the words "the end" with every intention of going back and adding some more scenes and details, but I find it very hard to motivate myself to do that.
The story's done, for better or for worse, and I want to walk away.
On the other hand, I want it to be as good as it can be, and I've got until midnight (or until I fall asleep) to improve it. On the other hand, "improving" it could cause more problems and just end up with a lot of word clutter. On the other hand, I really wanted to make it to 25,000 words - something about that number, which is exactly half of a NaNoWriMo novel, seems significant. On the other hand, I'm a perfectionist, and if I start re-reading, I might start trying for extensive editing, and that's just asking for trouble.
How many hands is that?
I'm going to take a break and then see what I think.
Hours: 22.5
Words: 22,634
Pages: 110
Music: A Prairie Home Companion - "Original Motion Picture Sountrack" (twice, or was it three times?); Bif Naked - "Purge".
Fuel: Double-long-shot iced mocha and a lot of chocolate-covered-almonds.
I wrote the words "the end" with every intention of going back and adding some more scenes and details, but I find it very hard to motivate myself to do that.
The story's done, for better or for worse, and I want to walk away.
On the other hand, I want it to be as good as it can be, and I've got until midnight (or until I fall asleep) to improve it. On the other hand, "improving" it could cause more problems and just end up with a lot of word clutter. On the other hand, I really wanted to make it to 25,000 words - something about that number, which is exactly half of a NaNoWriMo novel, seems significant. On the other hand, I'm a perfectionist, and if I start re-reading, I might start trying for extensive editing, and that's just asking for trouble.
How many hands is that?
I'm going to take a break and then see what I think.
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Date: 2006-09-06 02:35 am (UTC)Definitely! Most of my plot points came to me during walks to and from work or at other random times. I rarely manage to force something to come together while sitting at the computer.
I think my intuition was right in that I fixed a couple of things that did need to be fixed, then I stopped before I started messing with it all too much.