Daily Writing Check-in

[domisotto]

I hope so. My main eventual romantic couple and the love story revolves around three men, neither of whom is bisexual.

[scribesunlimited]

Still hard at work on a very difficult editing job for a person convinced she's the next Billy Wilder.

Part of the notes I'm taking includes:

"Um, when you write a scene in a movie, we need a TIME. You can't just keep saying DAY and NIGHT, especially if time passes. Your scene should include "a few days later" or "the next day" or "3 years", etc. etc. I know you insisted you learned under James Cameron. Don't make me call James Cameron's rep and bitch at him."

[cherrystark]

Still hard at work on a very difficult editing job for a person convinced she's the next Billy Wilder.

Part of the notes I'm taking includes:

"Um, when you write a scene in a movie, we need a TIME. You can't just keep saying DAY and NIGHT, especially if time passes. Your scene should include "a few days later" or "the next day" or "3 years", etc. etc. I know you insisted you learned under James Cameron. Don't make me call James Cameron's rep and bitch at him."

This made me laugh. I agree with including "time" in your work. Even a lot of TV shows and movies don't account for time. They'll make the whole action seem like a day or two when in reality, solving mysteries (for example) would take several weeks or months.

[scribesunlimited]

Ahhh, it's funny now, but guess what? Soon we get to present this to Rami Malek's representative.

We've already made the query letter. It'll start:

"Please acknowledge receipt of this screenplay. We're very, very sorry."

[kennielacroix]

I'm putzing along some more with my writing while I continue doodle-practice, I think I managed about 2k words yesterday in total.

I've made good progress in the last couple of weeks. I've combined all the scripting I've done for the various chapters of one of my series, just to gauge where I'm at:

• 15 Pages

• 7,510 Words

• 36,167 Characters (without spaces)

Still have so long to go, but I'm encouraged that once my art skills are decent enough to start official art, I will have a solid/edited/finalized script to work off of. Then, other than random editing and continuity checks, it will just be about plugging away at the art. No guessing or trying to figure out how the story ought to unfold.

I should note I probably have doubled that amount but it's just filling out character sheets/random plots/world-building info/etc.

[foxnflames]

I need to make up the words I didn’t get in yesterday (I fell short about 300 words). I might challenge myself with this arc of my story and not make a proper outline and go off the plot points, it’s the last thing I wanna do now .

~also~ I’ll force myself to get a chapter ahead because next week I want to focus on catching up on people’s stories and drawing.

[domisotto]

Ah, sooo sleepy!

Got to 14.7K words, after introducing everyone, now I need to write the second lore banter, this one is more complicated than the first, tomorrow.

But I also straightened out the order of events in the outline and fleshed out a couple of plot points in the ancient storyline.

All and all, not bad!

[domisotto]

I woke up with the plan to finish editing Trapped by the Mafia, but after a couple of hours... lol, nope. There is almost 5 chapters still to go, and they are my chapters, not Tapas. So... going to call it good enough on the Trapped, go to the gym, then edit WIP... ouch. Much work & no sexy word counts to report.

What’s up, everyone?

[cherrystark]

I'm almost at 25K word count and it made me happy.

[domisotto]

Wow, awesome. 25K is hard territory, so yay on tackling it!

[Crusoe]

I'm very busy this week and next week, so I haven't gotten much opportunities to write. I did have to write for uni though, a manifesto and next week I need to complete a 1k word research paper on a topic using discourse analysis

[domisotto]

Total is 15.4K today, and I am too tired to keep my pseudo-science compact and somewhat entertaining, so that’s it for today! But I did a wagon load of editing, so I am overall happy with the low daily word count (I guess it’s 700 words).

[domisotto]

Hello everyone! Oh, thanks goodness it’s Friday!

My goal is to get myself to that point when my MC, Volya, dashes out. I can just see him doing it... but there is so much talking to get there still... heh.

[cherrystark]

Good luck with your goal!

[domisotto]

Thank you & what's up?

[cherrystark]

I am working on the big action scene for "Red" and I don't know what I'm doing there. It's fine. I am also trying to keep working on my romantic drama "Kingdom by the Sea."

[domisotto]

"Kingdom by the Sea."

Love the title. It has the right tang to it for a rom-drama.

[cherrystark]

Thanks! It was inspired by a line from my favorite poem, "Annabel Lee".

[Crusoe]

So I didn't write today, but I did work on my novel by finally working on a cover. I have finished the lineart for it today

[domisotto]

That sounds neat, love your blazing red artstyle!

I got to the point I was shooting for! Finishing at 16.6K total, so 1.2K written. Have to handle the wind down from that conversation, but it only has two actors in that scene, so it is easier. And no more pseudo-science! Lol, I am pretty much done with sci-fi portion, looools. All fantasy from now!