Word Count Accountability
Sep. 7th, 2017 01:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravens_quillWrote 3728 words on TIC, the sequel to the novel I'd completed for NaNo last November.
Good gods this year is flying by. Ugh.
Anyway, that's the most progress I've made on the sequel story in quite a while. I've worked on a few other things, some same world/different cast stories and a few flash pieces, but this is the proper sequel.
I had no idea if I'm doing it right. I think this is the first real, proper sequel I've ever written, and I find myself questioning how much to reference the previous book's information--I don't want to data dump the whole first book, you know, so I am trying to drop bits of info here and there where pertinent. Make it useful but not irksome if you've read the first book, but hopefully useful without being too sparse for someone if they picked up the sequel without reading the first book. Hopefully, anyway.
Part of me worries too, about the ending of the first book, TIZR, because I hate writing endings. I always know what I want them to do, but can never feel confident that they're doing that.
All a moot point at the moment, since it's not published and I have my own time frame for editing and querying it, so I can take the time I might need to rewrite the ending--if needed--without feeling like I'm messing up someone else's schedule. But still, I'm noodling, and worrying, and ideas are niggling in my head.
Fussing about writing progress is a good sign, though, as is, actually, staying up too late because I hit the right playlist and found the groove.
Okay, anyway, it's 1:30 here, and part of me is ready and willing to keep at this story, but my eyelids are drooping and it took a while to fall asleep last night, so time for sleep, yes? Yes.
Good gods this year is flying by. Ugh.
Anyway, that's the most progress I've made on the sequel story in quite a while. I've worked on a few other things, some same world/different cast stories and a few flash pieces, but this is the proper sequel.
I had no idea if I'm doing it right. I think this is the first real, proper sequel I've ever written, and I find myself questioning how much to reference the previous book's information--I don't want to data dump the whole first book, you know, so I am trying to drop bits of info here and there where pertinent. Make it useful but not irksome if you've read the first book, but hopefully useful without being too sparse for someone if they picked up the sequel without reading the first book. Hopefully, anyway.
Part of me worries too, about the ending of the first book, TIZR, because I hate writing endings. I always know what I want them to do, but can never feel confident that they're doing that.
All a moot point at the moment, since it's not published and I have my own time frame for editing and querying it, so I can take the time I might need to rewrite the ending--if needed--without feeling like I'm messing up someone else's schedule. But still, I'm noodling, and worrying, and ideas are niggling in my head.
Fussing about writing progress is a good sign, though, as is, actually, staying up too late because I hit the right playlist and found the groove.
Okay, anyway, it's 1:30 here, and part of me is ready and willing to keep at this story, but my eyelids are drooping and it took a while to fall asleep last night, so time for sleep, yes? Yes.