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Date Posted: 17:34:31 12/25/13 Wed
A couple of months ago I was way behind on my writing for the year. I had little hope of getting to my goal of 624,000 words a year, or the slightly more important goal of getting to 156 chapters a year, which is what is needed to maintain the website. I was something like 280,000 words short of the goal, which is a heck of a lot to have to do in two months.
The only hope remaining to reach the goal was to do an aggressive NaNoWriMo project in November, but the only idea I had just wasn't ready to write yet. So, in desperation, on about November 7 I turned to a project I'd started on last spring, but had lost interest in because I detected that it needed one more theme than it had, but I didn't have an idea of what it could be. Then I realized that a short story I'd dreamed up while in the hospital in October could be that missing theme. It was, and in a few short weeks, I'd added 120,000 words to the story -- a good one, too.
Heartened by this success, I turned to another story I'd started in 2011. It was a good start, but the story didn't want to go in the direction I wanted to take it. I decided to just write on it a little, and see what direction it wanted to go. On December 11th, I finished it -- another 100,000 words toward the goal, and also I think a pretty cool story.
In the second story there was a character I needed to do some research on as she needed to have some special attributes. (I'm deliberately being vague as I don't want to let any spoilers loose.) A news story caught my eye -- a woman in the story had those attributes and inspired an inspiring and memorable character. Even after I finished the story, I felt like there was more story to be found there. I thought about it a bit, and realized it was an interesting story but needed a different focus. I had an idea how to start the story, and wrote the first chapter on December 15. I finished it, 80,000 words later, late on Christmas Eve, which is something of a record for me.
GOOAAAAAAALLLL!
If I recall correctly, I did Alone Together in fourteen days, but the power was out due to an ice storm for two of them, so I'm rather happy at the moment, and I wanted to share it with you.
It's been quite a seven weeks, needless to say. I have to write these stories when inspiration comes, and it took its own sweet time getting here this year. I sure hope I can be a little more organized next year.
Happy New Year, everyone!
-- Wes
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