August 1st, 2007
Today’s co-sponsor for our Wednesday check-in is Phaze author Victoria Blisse. Victoria has generously offered up three of her stories – PROVING SANTA EXISTS, GETTING PHYSICAL, and MASQUERADING HEARTS – as prizes to a couple of lucky sweating challengers. I’ll pick names on Thursday from everyone who weighs in by noon, CDT, 8/2.
Fun stuff out of the way, how we doin’?
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Great! I was just up writing and I stayed up to wait for the check-in post.
I’m at 3822 since last check-in and 18927 (goal 18000) since starting.
I got my 70 Days goodie box from Jo Leigh this afternoon (or technically yesterday, huh?) so hopefully sometime after I drag myself out of bed, a post with pictures.
Hope everyone is doing well.
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I suck :( I haven’t gotten any writing done since the last post but I have gotten most of the synopsis done for two new stories.
Total Words: 27,547
Per Day Average: 1,148
Back to writing tomorrow. Maybe I can get that average back up to 1500.
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Still goin’ strong and I hope Sven is pleased! :)
Total for challenge: 46,414 words
Words since Wednesday, last check-in: 6,389
Thus far, my daily average for the Sweat Challenge is running 1,856 words.
Sweat on, everybody!
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It’s an early check-in for me today, since I stayed up rather late watching the musings of late-night comedians.
Words since the Sunday check-in: 4,526
Total words since taking the challenge: 25,085
Happiness at the current totals: priceless.
Seriously– I’ve begun to stop worrying as much about word count, and more about plot. It was a harder transition to make at first, as I couldn’t put my finger on what was driving me batty about the challenge until the Sven Sunday post from HellenKay’s blog. I’m really thankful for the chance to pinpoint what was bugging me, and get the inspiration to work on wiping away that added stressfulness.
Knock on wood.
Heh-heh. But for the moment, I’m happy as a freshly fed bat. ^^
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Not doing too badly! Total of 22,774 words since the start, and a daily average of 948, which is brilliant considering how many days I’ve missed altogether…
Riding on a high wave of cheerfulness now though, due to a four and a half star review for one of my books in RT!!!
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Not so good – I’m waylaid with a mysterious exhaustion just as my day job picks up speed. My total for the challenge is hovering at 30k right now, 5k less than I wanted by today. But I’m confident I can kick it – I’m still making steady progress, just with much smaller numbers than previously, and it’s that steady progress that is my goal here.
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Crap, my first post got eaten. I’m not moving along as much this week do to a proposal, edits and a revision, but I’m up 3k on the Missing from Sunday. It’s at 37K now, so I’m nearly halfway done and it’s not due for five more months. :-)
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24 pages since the post on Sunday. Overall, 132 pages or about 24,000 words (using computer word count) since the challenge began. I’m really happy with the progress and my writing is going very well. :-)
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I’m at work so I don’t have my exact numbers, but I’ve done over 5,500 since Sunday (half of which was a synopsis – but it’s still words, right? :-) That should bring me in at just under 30,000 for the challenge. :-) Woot, woot!!
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my word count is 16,833 to be exact. not having a good week.
Feel ill today as well so i doubt my word count will get much bigger. I left them right in the middle of an acton scene too =)
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I finished my WIP (titled: Nine) on Tuesday, 361 pages total since the challenge began. Started revising. Revised 50 pages since then.
And I started another one — short category. I’m trying long-hand with this one. About 3 pages done. :)
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Struggling.
I almost didn’t want to post a response this Wednesday. As far as I’m concerned, there’s been no word count change since this time last week. What I written since last Wednesday, I’ve also trashed. It sucked. (No, I’m not just being too hard on myself. The first 3 chapters, which = 11,200 words, I’m happy with. Yes, I’ll need to revise and improve in a later draft, but I’m happy with them for draft one. However, what I’ve attempted in the past week… sucks. :-( )
That said, I’m far from giving up. I’ll find a way to slay the dragon keeping me from getting Chapter 4 done. But it is a bit of a rough spot I’ve hit.
So, word count remains: 11,271.
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Checking in with 12,374 words complete. While Sven isn’t satisfied by any means, he has backed off with the amount of push ups I’m having to do, lol!! Today should be a good writing day-look forward to churning out the words!
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As today is the first of the month, release day for Whiskey Creek Press and Torrid, I’ve been busy getting everything ready. So I’ve written nada.
But, BECAUSE today’s the first, it means that I’m now free! Free as a bird! Well, until three weeks from now, lol, when it begins again. BUT, I’m going to work hard the rest of the week to try to get my week’s word count in. I have hope!
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Checking in early so it’s done and I can get back to the writing I didn’t do yesterday. My word count since Sunday’s check in is 1,166. Now I just have to put butt in chair and write. Funny how well it works when you actually sit down and work, instead of just staring at the work from across the room just thinking about writing. Still don’t know the page count as the work is still in long hand.
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I am still in a bad place with my writing. I overcame a huge roadblock and got moving ahead. I like where the story is headed and love that I know what is coming. It is just getting there. My word count is barely over 10,000 but I have faith I can jump forward in the next week.
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So far for this week I have 3,505 added since Sunday. 29,055 for the total sweat this summer, and overall word count of 41,633. Leaving me with 58,367 to go. Not so bad since I’ve started. I’m a little behind this morning but I’m going to try to get 2,208 more words before the day is up. I don’t have to be at work for another hour and a half. Keeping my fingers crossed.
I hope every one else is having a good sweat this summer.
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I’m struggling a bit finding the time this week as I had hoped, since something unexpected came up. I’m still only at around 7,000. But I’m used to procrastinating.
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3700 odd since Sunday, and you can read the short story those words made here : The Pink Chair Diaries
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Well I wrote about 1500 words in the novel for the challenge since Sunday, but I also landed a paying gig so I have written about 3500 in two short articles for a website newsletter. So that counts right???
I plan to write for the novel the next three nights…..
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20 pages since Sunday, and I’m getting ready to write my six pages for today.
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Just over 55K (220 pages). I’m entering the final stretch (I’m getting into the “action” stuff, which goes a little faster), with less than a hundred pages to go. It feels good!
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I’ve done very well so far this week. I’ve managed 7,408 words since Sunday and have crossed the 40,000k mark. I hope to get another 7-8k done by Sunday. Cross your fingers.
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2 A4 pages–still by hand. I’m never going to live this fiasco down.
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I’m sitting just under 24K for the challenge so far. Nothing new since Sunday’s check in because I had to revise a story for submission. But I made that 7/31 deadline, thanks in a huge part to Sven! I re-read my other wip last night so I’m ready to dig in and get some new words. I’m also documenting a new story idea that slammed me right between the eyes.
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I’ve been writing! Yay!
I estimate I’ve done about ten more pages since Sunday, but I haven’t downloaded my Alphasmart yet so I’m not positive on the exact amount. I find I write more when I don’t know, so I’m going to upload on Saturdays.
In the meantime, I just keep telling myself, “You’re not done yet, keep writing.”
;-)
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So far, 15,027 words. It is moving slowly, but at least it’s moving!
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Zilch.
That’s what I’ve accomplished. However, while staying with my grandfather, I will try doing some work.
The tricky part will be remembering pages/word count, afterwords.
Have a good day all!
I don’t know if I can make it to the Sunday check in. I will try though.
toodles,
B.L.
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Not so good…but we had to polish the novella, and then we got galleys for our second book, both got edits on our individual projects…so we’ve been working, just haven’t been increasing page count much. We should have some halfway decent numbers by Sunday, though!
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I am at 40%, caught up, and having a blast. Word count is around 24,500 for 25 days. I believe by the end of September, I am going to be averaging 8-10 pages a day total for all stories. A good thing. The challenge has really helped me. I got into the habit of posting everyday on my work, and I began making notes of what I had done and what I needed to do the next day. A good habit.
Hope everyone is WRITING.
It’s hot in Mississippi!
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I finally managed to do some writing this week. Sunday was a busy day for me and I’ve spent the last few days recovering from it but I have written not much but enough to get one of the stories finished and edited then sent away with synopsis etc.. so since Sunday I’ve written 1784 words bringing my total up to: 11284.
Hopefully the rest of the week I am going to spend writing and catching up for lost time.
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I’ve been having days of nothing interspersed with fierce writing, but I haven’t written this consistently in a long long time, it’s great! Yay, Sven!
434 on wednesday
had to stop cos I have to go, rats!
1531 on tuesday
nothing on monday
1200 on sunday
none on Saturday
400 on Friday
829 on Thursday
621 on Wednesday
840 on Tuesday
1045 on Monday
none on Sunday :-( (Harry Potter)
1000 something on Saturday
can’t remember Friday
637 on thursday
1085 on wednesday!
905 on Tuesday
775 monday & 337
none on sunday
1070 on Saturday!
556 Friday
798 on Thursday
565 plus 79 words on Wednesday = 644
742 words on Tuesday
1120 words on Monday
1029 words on Sunday July 8th
weee!
:-)
Deniz
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28k and hovering there atm. I ripped out about 3k and redid it, but not happy with it so…. :)
But on the upside – I’m writing :)
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Not as much progress as I would have liked due to one of those serious moments that do temporarily take your mind from the writing. My mother-in-law is heading into a final decline (though she may still be with us for a while) and the reality has now begun to sink in for the husband and the father-in-law. Last night was spent providing the husband with support instead of revising.
That’s not an excuse; it’s a fact of life that I’m going to have to deal with in the months ahead. I’m going to have to make certain to include slip time in my schedule for those days when I have to put the writing aside because of those family considerations.
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40,581. On target! Whoo-hoo!
Hoping I can keep it up as school preplanning starts tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
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Checking in with… not much. Lots of nonfiction this week, so I guess I can chalk it up to one of those “real life” interferences? I’m not way off and I think I’ll be able to catch up. We’ll see.. total for the challenge right now is 38,452… nothing to sneeze at, eh? :)
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I didn’t get to post my count for last week as I was out of town for the bill paying job Sunday to Tuesday. Last week, I wrote 27 pages. That’s good for me. This week — 0 so far, but again, I was at a conference for the bill paying job. My goal for the rest of the week is 20 pages.
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I’ve only written 1500 words since Sunday.
Total word count since starting challenge: 18,500
Will get more done this week. I did have a start on this book before the challenge so have a total of 34,750 done on this book.
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Total word count = 5,367.
Has anyone else noticed the dwindling number of posts? {sigh}
I know I should give up too, but I do find myself more focused on writing, so I’ll continue to embarass myself for at least another few weeks {laughs}.
Take care………….Wayne
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Well, I have to pat my muse on the back. Still up to where I want to be, but I’ve written at least one chapter each day.
Since Challenge started: 15,467 words
Since Sunday’s post: 5,001 words
If this keeps up, I’ll actually finish at least one of my projects and be well into my others. :D
Have a great week guys!
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Haven’t wrote one word since Sunday, literally. RL and the DJ pushing boulders in the path.
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It’s still Wednesday, isn’t it? Barely… I completely forgot about the check in! :-P
My word count so far is just a hair over 27k.
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About 3,000 words since last check-in. Total for 3 projects since the start of the challenge 12,075.
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Just 1859 words this busy week, in which a family reunion and a visit from my mother took precedence over writing!
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I’m sitting on 25866 all told, and am absolutely in love with my story. When I started this – I had a few MAJOR story problems to work out.
But because I’m having to move (and keep moving) the story is flowing (suprisingly) naturally. Last week I had a few rough spots – but this week, things went incredibly well.
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I almost forgot to weigh in, but here it goes, not to bad 38,268. That brings me to 63,155 on my current WIP and 1,700 on a short story I am working on.
I have to say thanks again. Some days it is like pulling teeth to sit and write, others it comes real easy. Today was one of those pull teeth day, but I did it and even went over my 1500 daily count.
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Total since Sunday = 1595. A little over half of what I wanted to do (3000). I am so depressed. I may need to take a vacation day and just write until I get out of the hole!! My day job is killing me!
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I didn’t check in Sunday because I was in Vegas on vacation, but I still wrote last week!
Last week’s total:39.5 pages in spite of vacation. This week I already have 22 and it’s only Wednesday.
I’m teaching workshops next week, but after the last month, I realize that doesn’t mean I have to stop writing. It just means I have to rearrange the time!
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Jeez. I seem to be having a hard time with this “post by Wednesday” business. This is twice that I’ve posted on Thursday because I just plain forgot to come here and post!
I’m at 48,047 words total. That’s…1675 new words since Sunday.
Grand Total: 10,385 words since we started.
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39k!
But I’m not giving up yet.