I have reached my 10,000 word milestone
Posted on January 12th, 2009 | by admin |I am fairly pleased with myself because I buckled down over the weekend and got some writing done. Between work and my other distractions (Xbox 360 is a tool of Satan) I have not been keeping up with my 2,000 word a day goal that I set for myself but I managed to catch back up Sunday.
I am running into another problem though. Since I am trying to just get it written instead of editing as I go. I noticed that I am only writing the big story points instead of describing the little things.
For example, I recently started reading some novels by Simon R. Green, if you like Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, you would like these. When Simon sets a scene where his main character is getting out of his car, it might take a page and a half. He describes him stopping the car, checking the area around him, doing a little description of the area, getting out, locking the door, adjusting his white trench coat, etc. Mine is a little more like “he got out of the car and walked inside.” Two or three sentences max because I see the big scene I am leading up to in my mind and i want to get into it. So, I know I need to go back and expand the storytelling with more description but part of the deal in this challenge is we can not do any editing until we either reach 50,000 words or the month is over. So what do I do?
I could just keep writing and adding description from here on but then I worry about the condensed sections, if I go back later and add water is it going to overflow and my book then be too long for the story being told? I guess we will see what happenes but if you have an opinion feel free to shoot me a comment.