Quality, quantity, and breeding plot bunnies.

[sofiaviolet]

I recently lost an outline and the first 5000 words of a story that was threatening to be 50000. Epic fail, my computer.

They were a damn good five thousand words, too. But oh well. I’ve started again, and I’m rapidly closing in on the previous word count. For some reason, things I write in notebooks are less polished than things I write on computers, even after I’ve broken myself of the habit of compulsively editing unfinished work.

I’m also almost three thousand words (and five+ new characters) into another story, and trying to figure out how to write drabbles and deleted scenes without interrupting either of the other stories (they’re in separate notebooks to keep them from interrupting each other, but I feel like hauling three to school every day would be ridiculous). Maybe those are safe to write on a computer. To be honest, I’ll probably wind up composing them right in my html editor, complete with tags; it’s just too annoying to switch between documents and make sure I’ve correctly handled each case of special formatting.

I’ve been sleeping a lot over spring break, and keeping a weird schedule. End result: I could have had five hours of sleep last night - if I could have fallen asleep. Instead, I spent about five hours snuggled under my blankets, writing random snippets in my head and plotting out where I want the new story to go (not that I expect the characters to obey, but whatever).

Summary for the month of March so far (9 days): wrote 15387 words, lost 4751 words to gremlins, have reached 4337 words on the rewrite of the story that got eaten by gremlins, got 2701 words into a prequel for that story, and wrote 3598 words of miscellaneous (mainly false starts and outlines).

Originally published at Auriel. You can comment here or there.

Comments

Wow!

[susanandleonard.livejournal.com]

That's some production. Take a breath, sweetie. I've got some names for you, but it's time for me to get to work so I'll send them later today.

Love you, Mom

[sofiaviolet]

Names yay!

Ahahaha, these days I only stop writing for school and offline social interaction. I probably only wrote that much because I had almost no other obligations. Just being in class for a few hours definitely limits my potential for 4000-word days.