Day 11
Project - Lady in Blue
Chapter - 1 - THEN
Words - 529
Sessions - 4 (6:50 am - 179 words, 8:27 - 168, 10:15 - 95, 1:29 pm - 87)
Current #firstdraft total: 4,649

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Day 10
Project - Lady in Blue
Chapter - 1 - THEN
Words - 153
Sessions - 1 (10:49 am - 153 words)
Current #firstdraft total: 4,120

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Day 9
Project - Lady in Blue
Chapter - 1 - THEN
Words - 459
Sessions - 3 (4:28 am - 122 words, 6:25 - 260, 7:07 pm - 77)
Current #firstdraft total: 3,967

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Day 8
Project - Lady in Blue
Chapter - 1 - THEN
Words - 56
Sessions - 1 (2:03 pm - 56 words)
Current #firstdraft total: 3,508

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Wrote a first wee piece using the voice of possibly the most important secondary character in my #wip yesterday, and I signed it in their voice too.
Jack is a mysterious pamphleteer advocating revolution in Grizelle's country of Greater Goddodin, and Grizelle becomes obsessed with their work, sending Grainne to hunt them down and bring them to the West to help plan overthrowing the Patriarch
#writing #fantasy #firstDraft

Day 7
Project - Lady in Blue
Chapter - 1 - THEN
Words - 578
Sessions - 2 (6:12 pm - 172 words, 10:19 - 406)
Current #firstdraft total: 3,452

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Day 6
Project - Lady in Blue
Chapter - 1 - THEN
Words - 443
Sessions - 4 (8:46 am – 54 words, 11:08 – 91, 11:20 – 92, 12:01 pm – 206)
Current #firstdraft total: 2,874

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Day 5
Project - Lady in Blue
Chapter - 1 - THEN
Words - 409
Sessions - 4 (9:24 am - 137 words, 11:09 - 118, 2:41 pm - 75, 5:24 - 79)
Current #firstdraft total: 2,431

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Have just finished a #firstDraft of a #script for a new wee #history #video. It's about #MaryQueenofScots flight through #Galloway .
Horrible, tragic story.
So much #Royal history is like that . 😥
#writing #nonfiction

Day 4
Project - Lady in Blue
Chapter - 1 - THEN
Words - 182
Sessions - 1 (5:17 am - 182 words)
Current #firstdraft total: 2,022

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#amwriting

Day 3
Project - Lady in Blue
Chapter - 1 - THEN
Words - 112
Sessions - 1 (8:16 am - 112 words)
Current #firstdraft total: 1,840

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#amwriting

Day 2
Project - Lady in Blue
Chapter - 1 - THEN
Words - 469
Sessions - 3 (5:55 am - 79 words, 6:43 - 191, 1:18 pm - 199)
Current #firstdraft total: 1,728

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Day 1
Project - Lady in Blue
Chapter - 1 - THEN
Words - 1,259
Sessions - 6 (8:44 am - 3 words, 10:32 - 398, 5:20 pm - 196, 6:13 - 233, 9:34 - 169, 10:23 - 260)
Current #firstdraft total: 1,259

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The #draft I’m working one spawned another story and now I feel compelled to write that one too. 😅

#writing #writer #firstdraft

Over on today’s Process Muse, we’re talking about uses and elements of a zero draft vs. a first draft. Join the conversation: https://devonellington.substack.com/p/zero-draft-or-first-draft
#ProcessMuse #Writing #WritingCommunity #Process #Author #ZeroDraft #FirstDraft

I finished writing my #FirstDraft.
I'm already brainstorming how I can fix various large problems.

https://escapewindow.com/blog/2023-08-15-first-draft-done/

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#AmWritingFantasy

Six more scenes to write.

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#AmWritingFantasy

This short exchange in my WIP does some outsized work for a mere 50 or so words. It achieves:

Physical description: Teo is slightly taller than Jonas, when the rest of his people are quite short.

Plot development: why yes, Teo IS tall for a Ystheran and uncomfortable when strangers notice it. Could there be a reason for that?

Character development: Look at Jonas dipping a toe in the flirtation pool. Look at Teo failing to pick up what he’s putting down, and being typically standoffish to boot. Look at Jonas being totally unperturbed at being called short.

World-building: Everyone belongs to the empire, but certain people get to define who belongs the most. A clue (among a sprinkle of others) about who fits where and how, without an info-dump.

I feel like these 50 words save me and the reader at least a page or two of long-winded description. Meanwhile, in my newest WIP, I feel like I’m writing page after page of backstory and info-dump and I can’t yet find the little bits of dialogue that would let me sneak it in instead…

#WritingCommunity #WIP #FirstDraft

Finally crossed the 50k mark of my #firstdraft. Time to start collecting the threads to tie them all together. As this is a fantasy novel all about story telling, everything must be connected, from politics to magic to religion.

My plan is to reach 100k before tightening it down to 80k or so, as editing surely will be needed 🤓

#writing #amwriting #fantasy

#WritingCommunity, I generally write everything longhand (#ZeroDraft), then transcribe, editing a bit (or more than a bit) along the way (#FirstDraft or #FirstRevision).

My frustration: That transcription/first-revision process substantially takes longer than the zero draft. Sure, I know the revision process is always arduous, but … still frustrating.

By the way, all y'all who shit a book in three months, please line up. I want to backhand the lot of you. :)

#AmWriting #AmRevising