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Pat_B
Looks like it is going to be ten weeks, Pat_B.
posted by
johnmacnab
on November 25, 2005 at 12:34 PM
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ten days, ten weeks...
whatever it takes. :) pat
posted by
Pat_B
on November 25, 2005 at 7:39 AM
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Talion
A quick look at your fiction blog tells me you have already silenced the voice. I'm going to start at the beginning, Talion.
posted by
johnmacnab
on November 21, 2005 at 6:56 PM
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johnmcnab
I have it down to a science now. I write enough each day to post in my fiction blog here. Sure, I write a little ahead and save it in a folder, but only fine tune enough to post. Any more and I end up overwhelmed and that little voice that tells me writing a novel is beyond my scope and grasp gets louder.
posted by
Talion
on November 21, 2005 at 3:45 PM
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Talion
I wish I could do it your way, Talion, but I'm one of those
'quick get it down when I'm still thinking about it' people. Your 600 words a day of nearly perfect prose sounds darned good to me.
posted by
johnmacnab
on November 21, 2005 at 3:39 PM
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johnmcnab
For the most part, I edit as I go along. The perfectionist in me doesn't allow forward progression if a sentence isn't just the way I want it. However, it slows the process down considerably. For example, I'm lucky if I get six hundred words down a day, but I rest easy knowing not much more could be done to them.
posted by
Talion
on November 21, 2005 at 1:36 PM
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MayB
But isn't it wonderful when it clicks into place?
posted by
johnmacnab
on November 21, 2005 at 7:04 AM
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The writing has always been the easy part. Rewriting is much more like hard work.
posted by
Azur
on November 21, 2005 at 4:14 AM
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