Vacation days = staying up late!
Dec. 28th, 2012 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dotsandlinesI need to make up some more icons. Ah, well.
I was sprinting toward 130,000 because of a small part in an elaborate personal scheme. I calculate my entertainment budget based partly on time ($x per month) and partly on productivity ($x per finished project). My arbitrary signpost for writing is "every 10,000 words." I started this entertainment-budget scheme back around 117,000, in late October, and rounded that up to 120K. So this marks the first time I've passed one of my notches. 10K doesn't sound like that much in light of NaNoWriMo, but I don't write at that speed these days, let's be honest.
Words without notes: 130,417 (+6,706)
With notes: 139,431 (9,014 of notes, -5,290 since last time)
Pages: 266 (+1)
Finished rewriting a fairly long scene and dumped the old draft that was lingering in the "notes" column. The conversion of "notes" to "actual story" would be how I can write over 6,000 words and still only advance one page, although 6K words is something like 9 pages normally.
Aaaanyway, I have some sketchy plans for a couple more new scenes, which is nice.
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On a completely different note, I got Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold for Christmas, and LOVE IT. See, I only hesitantly call myself a science fiction fan, because I know that many of the absolute classics just don't grab me. Foundation, for instance. I can't call myself a SF fan if I was bored to tears by Foundation. It's a freaking classic. And yet...
Thus far, this series is full of political machinations, and it has another dimension that a lot of other SF lacks: characterization. Like, at all. Because of this, the political-machinations part comes off as not an Author Tract (cough) but a story that is happening to the characters. Because I believe that these are, in fact, characters, and not paper cutouts with "THIS IS THE BAD GUY" / "THIS IS THE AUTHOR AVATAR SLASH GOOD GUY" written on them and pasted to popsicle sticks.
...I have tried hard all my life to like Asimov's fiction, people, you just don't understand.
Anyway. Even though I turned in my science fiction fan badge long ago, there are some that I like, and this is one of them. I am delighted to possibly find a series that I enjoy, because it's been a while since I found a new one.
Time to tap out that entertainment budget... sigh. :)
I was sprinting toward 130,000 because of a small part in an elaborate personal scheme. I calculate my entertainment budget based partly on time ($x per month) and partly on productivity ($x per finished project). My arbitrary signpost for writing is "every 10,000 words." I started this entertainment-budget scheme back around 117,000, in late October, and rounded that up to 120K. So this marks the first time I've passed one of my notches. 10K doesn't sound like that much in light of NaNoWriMo, but I don't write at that speed these days, let's be honest.
Words without notes: 130,417 (+6,706)
With notes: 139,431 (9,014 of notes, -5,290 since last time)
Pages: 266 (+1)
Finished rewriting a fairly long scene and dumped the old draft that was lingering in the "notes" column. The conversion of "notes" to "actual story" would be how I can write over 6,000 words and still only advance one page, although 6K words is something like 9 pages normally.
Aaaanyway, I have some sketchy plans for a couple more new scenes, which is nice.
---
On a completely different note, I got Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold for Christmas, and LOVE IT. See, I only hesitantly call myself a science fiction fan, because I know that many of the absolute classics just don't grab me. Foundation, for instance. I can't call myself a SF fan if I was bored to tears by Foundation. It's a freaking classic. And yet...
Thus far, this series is full of political machinations, and it has another dimension that a lot of other SF lacks: characterization. Like, at all. Because of this, the political-machinations part comes off as not an Author Tract (cough) but a story that is happening to the characters. Because I believe that these are, in fact, characters, and not paper cutouts with "THIS IS THE BAD GUY" / "THIS IS THE AUTHOR AVATAR SLASH GOOD GUY" written on them and pasted to popsicle sticks.
...I have tried hard all my life to like Asimov's fiction, people, you just don't understand.
Anyway. Even though I turned in my science fiction fan badge long ago, there are some that I like, and this is one of them. I am delighted to possibly find a series that I enjoy, because it's been a while since I found a new one.
Time to tap out that entertainment budget... sigh. :)
