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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 14, 2018 5:05:44 GMT
Thanks, everybody. Today I wrote 1209 words.
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Post by prolificwriter on Oct 14, 2018 6:11:00 GMT
2,478 written and edited today!
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 15, 2018 4:51:14 GMT
Great wordcount, prolificwriter. I wrote 1363 words today. Only two short chapters to go now on my novella that is now officially a short novel. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 16, 2018 5:40:17 GMT
A good 2121 words today plus a lengthy blogpost (which I don't count, otherwise I would never get any writing done).
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 17, 2018 7:05:01 GMT
A good 1933 words today, some of it for my novella turned short novel and some of it for a non-fiction article for a website to which I occasionally contribute.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 17, 2018 7:11:53 GMT
You are so faithful, corabuhlert! You're a definite pro. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 17, 2018 7:14:35 GMT
You are so faithful, corabuhlert ! You're a definite pro. Thanks. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 18, 2018 4:12:14 GMT
I wrote 1655 words today, most of them for the non-fiction article, which I have to hand in next week.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 18, 2018 5:15:32 GMT
Good job, Cora.  I wrote up tentative plans for my space station at shit study, tonight. It's a space station supported by magick, so I'm not too worried about physics and stuff. It has 28 levels. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 19, 2018 4:22:19 GMT
1575 words today, mostly non-fiction, plus I sent out my newsletter.
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 20, 2018 4:09:04 GMT
1259 words today.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 20, 2018 4:39:49 GMT
I really should write words, too. I’ve been downloading and reading forums instead. I have written words on here and on Facebook. It’s just that I feel my sff society doesn’t work or make sense, so I don’t have a ton of motivation. But seeing you posting regularly every day, corabuhlert makes me happy. 🤗 |
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 21, 2018 4:30:41 GMT
1358 words today, plus I finished that non-fiction article. Now I have to cut it down, since my non-fiction always runs too long. I also had to stop myself from binging on a surprisingly good German TV show. So I manfully stopped watching and held the final two episodes for tomorrow.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 21, 2018 5:03:52 GMT
1358 words today, plus I finished that non-fiction article. Now I have to cut it down, since my non-fiction always runs too long. I also had to stop myself from binging on a surprisingly good German TV show. So I manfully stopped watching and held the final two episodes for tomorrow. Such strength in shelving two eppies for later! Good job on new words and on writing too many. Too many words is the kind of problem you want to have. Well, I don't know if you specifically want to have that problem since it means more work, but it feels like a better problem than not having enough. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 22, 2018 5:34:22 GMT
Well, padding is easier than cutting an already information dense article down.
And I'm glad I kept the last two episodes for today, because the penultimate episode had a nasty cliffhanger at the helf point mark (a character trapped in a submerged car) and then totally forgot about that plot strand while following another character in a "Will the bomb go off?" plot? Then the bomb went off and the next episode returned to the character trapped in a submerged car and only returned to the bomb at the very end. There was even a time difference. It was day when the car went into the lake and night when the bomb went off. Sorry, but that was just bad editing. They should have went first with the one plot strand and then with the other. But as it is, it seemed as if they'd forgotten about the drowning character for half an episode.
Oh yes, and I also wrote 1141 words.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 22, 2018 6:52:52 GMT
I hate when TV editors get sloppy like that! I imagine filmsets must be madhouses, but still you'd think they could do better.
Yaays for the new word!
I wrote some practice words around 500 or something. I deleted them.
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Post by agnes on Oct 22, 2018 15:30:54 GMT
wow, corabuhlert, you are so dedicated! I feel inspired just looking at your word counts! |
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 23, 2018 3:41:30 GMT
At 2.5 million Euro per episode (supposedly Germany's most expensive TV production ever), they certainly could do better.
Meanwhile, I wrote 1111 words today and reworked the non-fiction article.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 23, 2018 20:35:37 GMT
corabuhlert I've always wondered if TV writers are just really bad writers or if it's because of too many people being involved in the process that tends to put out so much crap? What do you think? Also congrats on the new words again and finishing your article. I also really appreciate that you keep posting here!
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 24, 2018 4:52:50 GMT
I'm not sure. This show was very expensive by German standards and made by highly regarded directors (one of them is Tom Tykwer of Run, Lola, Run and Cloud Atlas fame) and writers and yet it has these very weird editing issues and is full of anachronisms (buildings and songs appearing years before they were built/written, the wrong building and a very famous one at that in view for several minutes, chemicals exploding that don't explode, nightvision scopes showing up years before they existed, plus the author has no idea how they work, etc...) that a minute of googling would have resolved. This is a pity, because the novels the show is based on are very well researched indeed. The show is called Babylon Berlin, by the way, and I think it's on Netflix. International reviews were very good, generally. I think the issues are more notable to me, because I'm German (i.e. I know what Berlin's very distinctive townhall looks like and that a certain politician was not assassinated) and because I have a series set a little later (and in a different country), so questions like "When were nightvision devices invented?" do come up.
Though I do find writing stories set between 40 and 100 year ago actually more difficult than writing stories set further back in time, because the period is near enough that a lot of things are similar, but yet long enough ago that you constantly have to check if X existed yet and when it appeared. I have a series set in the 1930s, one set in the 1950s and two set in the 1960s, so I run into these issues a lot. And yes, sometimes I fudge things (i.e. I invented a whole skyscraper on Fifth Avenue and had a movie play a month before it came out), but I usually know what I'm doing.
Meanwhile, I sent my non-fiction article off and hope that I don't have to do too many changes. I also translated a survey for college students for my bread job and finished the penultimate chapter of my novella/short novel. And I wrote 1073 words.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 24, 2018 16:33:09 GMT
With so many people working on filmsets I think it's likely impossible for it not to get screwed up. Unless each production has one person at the top who truly cares about every little detail, and who has the time and the will to double check everything and make people redo stuff when they fuck it up. Even the great maker didn't always have the time or the budget for that, but he got it right most of the time. You'd think with the stories already being books this type of thing would be easier. Oh well.
I can imagine living or having lived where something is set and knowing the real history would make it all more annoying. I know the real story behind Rose Parks, but I still enjoyed the Doctor Who eppy, for the most part.
*adds Babylon Berlin to my list* I'm watching The Magicians now, on season one.
Hurraaays on your words and your article - hope it gets accepted as is!
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 25, 2018 3:11:58 GMT
I'm more forgiving with historical inaccuracies in Doctor Who, because the show obviously isn't intended to be realistic. And IMO they handled the Rosa Parks story well.
But when a show claims to be realistic and then is full of preventable anachronisms, it's a different matter. And while I can understand the reasoning behind some of them, others just seem lazy.
Anyway, I didn't write very much today, because I visited the annual autumn fair, which has been held for 983 years now, though the modern version is very different from the medieval version. I had a lot of fun and ate too much food. And I did get 1085 words.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 25, 2018 4:00:00 GMT
I'm glad you had fun at the autumn fair! Even writers deserve to have fun once in a while. And you still managed over a thousand words. I went shopping and downloaded some new computer programs and now I get to go to shit study. Will write down any TUOK thoughts I have.  |
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Post by prolificwriter on Oct 25, 2018 6:23:48 GMT
After more than a week of not writing, I’m finally back at it. I want to finish this book by the end of the month. The time off was glorious. Can you tell I’m one of those writers that loves having written? Did 2,574 today. Hope to do more tomorrow. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 26, 2018 4:55:32 GMT
Congrats on the new words, prolificwriter. I managed 1269 words today, most of them for the final chapter of my novella/short novel. It's currently closing in on 45000 words and therefore moving out of the novella grace range for the Hugos and Nebulas, so I guess I'll just classify it as a short novel. I also came up with a new cover concept for one of my series, which isn't really selling. It's a series about a cozy small town, where strange and supernatural things keep happening. More of a horror parody, but the existing covers are closer to horror than anything else and it just doesn't work, because the right audience isn't finding the books. But now I have an idea for a more appropriate branded look that I can adapt for the various stories. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 27, 2018 3:56:40 GMT
1153 words today. The end is in sight.
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Post by prolificwriter on Oct 28, 2018 5:22:28 GMT
Only 1,478 words today.  But tomorrow is another day. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 28, 2018 5:49:00 GMT
1553 words today, plus the cover redesign.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 28, 2018 6:44:59 GMT
Only 1,478 words today. But tomorrow is another day. No tears. You wrote new words. That's something to be celebrated! |
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Post by prolificwriter on Oct 28, 2018 19:31:58 GMT
No tears. You wrote new words. That's something to be celebrated! It’s better than nothing, I guess. But I still want more! Damn my laziness! |
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But tomorrow is another day. 
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