Writing, writing, and more writing!

Last Thursday I started working on a new novel.  I have a bunch of novels in various states of outlining, and I even have one at the 25000 word mark.  That one, unfortunately, is undergoing a plot change that means I need to rewrite a lot of it.  Which means I am stalled out on it.  This new novel though, was an idea I had that I really wanted to do.  To make it even more challenging I wanted to see if I could write the first draft in a month and a half.   My target word count is between 60K and 75K as I feel that’s a good length for a novel. I have another goal which is to get more description in.  I want my draft chapters to be at least 1500 words.

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So I get to writing and start pounding out the story.  Only  I don’t have an outline or anything, just this really awesome pair of characters.  So what do you do in a situation like that? Well, I plugged myself into some music and let it flow through me.  I like to listen to acoustic mood music. No lyrics or very few lyrics is the best.  It swirls through my brain like a symphony of colors, summoning pictures of places and people.  Soon, my fingers were flying across the keyboard.

Today as I write this, just one week after I started this project, I am sitting at 11K words!  I just finished Chapter 7.  I feel like I should be further in, but I did have a couple days where life happened and I couldn’t write.  Doing the math though, I found that I have done on average 1571 words a day.  That is a pretty good accomplishment, and if I maintain that pace, a 60K word novel will take 38 days to write.  With 7 days down, I’ve got a month to go and the draft to my new book will be done.
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Obviously getting the draft done does not equate to a finished product.  Remember that you can’t edit a blank page.  Getting the story written is 90% of the battle.  That’s why it is so important to really ride yourself into getting that draft done, because when its done the story is out there.  Beginning, middle, and end.  Once there, you can start polishing that turd into a brilliant literary work of genius!

Keep Writing!

Too many projects!

I have decided that I suffer from the “oh look a squirrel!” syndrome.  I have a full time job that takes up the majority of my time, so once I am home from the drudgery of the workplace is when I get to indulge in my hobbies.  I prepare to start working on one of my projects and “oh look a squirrel!”, I’m distracted by something else.

Kids and family life make up a big percentage of my distractions.  I’m okay with those.  I love my family, and spending time with my kids and giving my wife a break are both very important to me.  The internet, however, is the bane of all creativity!

The internet sucks the creative mojo straight out of my body with it’s kittens and memes.  I will be researching writing tips or art techniques and before I know it I’m looking at videos of ducks chasing kids.  Why?  Why must I click on the suggested for you links?  Time disappears as quickly as kids when chores need to be done.  Then it’s too late to start anything or I’m too tired to get going on it.

The second part of my quandary is that I have too many projects that are demanding my attention.  There are several things that I enjoy doing.  One is writing.  I love that feeling of watching a story come together under your direction, and seeing your characters come to life.  But I also love to draw.  I have been wanting to get a comic going for years.  not a strip comic (although I have done one) but a full fledged comic book style web comic.  It isn’t easy coming up with an ongoing story line, so it needs a lot of research and learning on my part to get it going.  Now I have stumbled upon animation, which has taken all of my time as of late.
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How does one tame the squirrels of their life and focus on getting projects accomplished?

With a whip!  Just kidding, but it does take discipline and commitment.  I personally have made a list of all my projects with notes as to what needs to be done and an estimate as to how long that will take.  This gives me an idea of how to attack the projects to get them done.  The projects with the least amount of work left become my priority and I work on getting them finished first.   Once they are finished, I can start working on my bigger projects with less distractions.  I just have to remember that I will always have new projects popping up. You also have to refrain from getting lost in the browsing of the web!  Nothing destroys productivity more than the endless stream of brain numbing nonsense that is strewn across the internet.  Unplug the inter…….Oh look a squirrel!

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Happy December!

Happy December!  It’s almost 8:30 A.M. here in the Midwest and it’s 62 degrees F. out!  We get the weirdest weather here.  Can’t really complain about 62, but next week is suppose to be in the 40’s.

I haven’t posted in a while, I’ve been working on a story for a comic.  It’s a lot of work to put the story together, script it out, and then draw it, ink it, and color.  I have been busy with background story and character sketches.

Info Dumps.

I am trying to figure out how to do do an info dump in my comic story.  There really isn’t a surefire way to handle it.  If you lay it all out in the beginning, it might be too much reading and the readers get bored.  But if you spread it out through out the story as flashbacks, then it might get confusing or they might not understand what is going on when you need them to.

 
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The idea with this comic is to turn it into a web comic and post it online, so I had the idea to do a short animation showing a brief history of the world.  This would give them an idea of what led up to the current situation.  It would be brief, animated and should keep their attention long enough to allow my info dump to do it’s job.

Anyone else had to deal with info dumps in a creative way?