Glad to see y'all are doing well with writing! My endterm papers are coming up so I don't think I'll have the motivation to write much until January unfortunately just because I already need to write a ton.
Don't feel too down about it, any writing is writing practice.
My very first professor made us write in different styles, almost daily. Super Informal to Scholarly. It was really nice.
I'm slowly inching closer to my first big milestone, the ball/gala-thing ( I should really look this up), and I am metaphorically about to dump a bucket of drama on these poor characters. I'm so excited.
That's true I suppose and judging from the critique I've gotten so far this year I'm a really good concise, clear writer, so I bet it'll go fine.
And that sounds awesome! I love writing big dramatic scenes, so I hope you'll do to
I'm super excited to write it. I've been planning out all the 'fun' stuff that's gonna happen. Even had my friend scheme a card con for me, since they know more about it than I do. It'll be months, I think, before the readers are there, but still, so damn excited.
I want to commission some art of the chapters and possibly some music. scheming is I
So, we ended up working today anyway, so yeah... not sure if I will have time to write, because also the athletic event I was following went down today, and there were some highs and some lows. Some real lows... but if those young people can absorb their loses with a smile, I sure can take it too, lol. And keep writing. Because I am stubborn!
Yeah... itās a write off. I just didnāt have time, and I am tired 
Gonna tie it off on 56.6K and hope for the better flow tomorrow!
I just wanted to take a moment and say how happy I am to have clicked on this thread.
I hope your pen and pencil in never out and always sharp, your keyboard always responsive, and the chattering mess of your characters in your mind ever talkative. <3
( high there hope this is open for a few more. if not ill delete my post if you like)I've made it past the first season of my first novel series and working on season 2. Season one is precisely 131,971 words and season 2 has already passed its first big milestone of 50,000 words in less than half the time of book one and honestly, I'm really excited for once season 2 is ready to air and people have finished reading all of season 1. (Season 1 finished premiering prematurely due to inkgiving as a reward for my supporters.)
Everyone is totally welcome! And that some serious series. Grats on moving on season 2.
Gad to hear that 
Thanks, I've been working on the same series for six years now. So it's great to know it's not for nothing. So in this forum do we just post our progress on our stories? Just checking before i start talking to people like a maniac. I really like talking to other creators.
Yeah, just somewhere to come with daily thoughts and progress, cheer up others or celebrate wins... you know. So not to live and write in a vacuum.
Yeah, the vacuum is agonizing today on my checklist is what I've been super excited to get to It's this sense where the main character's best friend gets captured by the enemy and they have to figure out how to continue in the war without their friend. Because war stops for no one and gets them back from behind enemy lines. But once they get behind the enemy lines and try to find their friend they only find this dark knight warrior (who is actually their friend under enemy control spells) and the main villain.
Well, haven't written or edited for my story this week, but I finished up all of my portfolio questions for a course and that ended up at 2.6k words, so I guess I have been writing.
I took a day off yesterday to decompress. Itās hard time at work atm, and I am just exhausted... plus, the competition ended, so I had to watch the gala and talk to mom and absorb everything that had happened and calm my fangirl vibes.
My goal today is to prep a chapter for posting for Werewolf story and try to fall back into my flow.
Doing my reading for now & working.
I haven't made much progress on either of my series. Just making sure to take a step back and write what comes naturally. Especially with all the headache of COVID and the upcoming holidays.
I'm currently at 67 episodes and 100k words. I am releasing 5 episodes a week and try to keep my minimum at 1k words per episode. Some days it is hard to write but I try to keep 10 episodes ahead of what is released so I have a 2 week buffer to account for random issues. Sometimes the pressure I put myself under gets a little severe but since this is my first attempt at being an author I want to make sure to put in enough work that it has a chance of succeeding. Keeping ahead of what is releasing does afford me the ability to take a day off when I need it or when I have to work a double at my job, so if you can manage to get ahead and stay there I do recommend it.
Honestly, self-care is the most important of all cares and writing practices. There are many forms of fatigue and it is important to learn to recognize them in yourself. If you are tried, take a hiatus. Take a break. How ever long you need. Trust me, readers can tell when the Author is losing it. They will be willing to wait.
Besides, the fact that you even think about your story, is writing. It is planning, and figuring out your characters better. You gotta live in them.
If I may rant, that's my biggest peeve as a reader. I hate when characters aren't people.
At least for me, they are people first. Then, secondly, they just happen to be expressed via words than a corporeal form, but always, PEOPLE first.
So, moral of the story, go make yourself some Chamomile tea and stare at the sky, and just take a break. 
Same! XD I just took a week off writing last week, but now a lot of things are due this week so I can't write until weekend. Feels really strange.
I officially called it for Nano. I ended up with 87k words for the event and I have too much going on to worry about that last 13k right now. I need to go in and do my update on the actual site still. After getting some bad news yesterday, I've written a total of one sentence then stared at my document for like an hour before decided it's just not the time right now.
I also emailed my teacher with a kind of rant/stream of consciousness about everything going on right now and his response was basically 'that sounds stressful. Take your time and no points will be detracted for any late work' and then I cried because it was really sweet of him 
Yeah, I usually finish or nearly finish the book before posting, so I don't worry about the writing schedule.
With the sequel to Trapped by the Mafia, however, it suddenly showed renewed reader interest, so I am trying to add maybe a chapter a week for now on top of regular updates to the Werewolf.
I am close to finishing Werewolf & it got so little love from the readers, that I have sinned. Maybe it's wrong, but I am so tired of doing the right thing, working hard and getting nowhere. Yeah, couldn't resist.
Thanks 
and yeah, I set my personal goal to 100k. The stress from the election had me thinking I wasn't going to reach it, then I buckled in and got several REALLY good writing days done, and now I'm back to stress not making me reach it. It's still a successful nano, but I am little disappointed I didn't get to where I wanted to be
my minimum for my season 2 is 80,000 words but my thing is a story is done when it's done. Once I feel it's far enough in and ends in the way I want it I go through it a couple of times to make sure everything is good and that's it. On to the next book. I want the story to be the best version I can make it mean the moral of the story here if you feel it's done. Then it's done.
I prefer that approach as well and I really dislike the word count requirements by the agents and publishers by genre.
Personally, as a reader, I actually prefer concise works at 60-80K rather than huge overblown fantasy books, particularly because they end up being unfinished even when the authors get contracts & everyone begs them for the next book.
Same with videogames. Give me an awesome 40 hours story with lots of options and I am happy, not the whole OW stuff.
but itās not a rant for this thread.
Yeah, I agree you can tell when the author has a word requirement or not. Either the story starts feeling too compacted or too spaced out to make up for the word count. Personally, that's why I think indie games that didn't have restrictions do so well. Such as Undertail or the first book of Erigon. None of those had restrictions.
Word count was a method we used to tell the difference in what kind of story we were reading.
Short-Story. 20k
Novella. 50k
Novel. 75k+
etc.
80k+ is absolutely a marvel to behold, and you should be hella proud of yourself. I am proud of you!
Don't sweat the small stuff. Really. I've been working on my baby of a series for years now. I've given up counting, because I know a lot will not get used, BUT were useful in that I learned more about my characters.
I think that series is getting into 500k territory, and countless hours researching and planning. One day, I will have enough of it to get it out there properly, but until then, I'll keep leering over my cauldron stirring.
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Also, if I may, can we all agree to stop apologizing for life and beating ourselves up for not devoting all our sanity and blood to writing? You're writers. Whether you wrote today or not. You do not have to pay tax to be a writer. You are. <3 <3
It was. Unfortunately, it turned into the āUnder 90K? Is it even fantasy, bro?ā And āOver 55K is an automatic rejection on a formula romance, dude.ā
Itās hard for me, because I donāt like writing for long with the same setting and characters. I like packaging together setting and characters with a tight plot, and that almost always lands me in 60-80K book length.
And i have no interest in writing series.
In turn, it means I canāt query any of my books, because everyone needs 90K as a starting point & serialization option.
Like, okay, I know I was rejected and would be rejected even if I met correct length, but still. I just want so badly to be recognized for my writing, lol.
My heart needed to hear that and I didn't even know I needed to. Yeah let's all agree to try and be nicer to ourselves.
I roughly finished the last fantasy scene from the past in the book! Obviously, would need to touch up and iron it out tomorrow to make sure it hits in the quick, but I am pleased with it so far.
Next is a big romantic scene š„°
Total words is 57.9K at the moment.
Like I said, my comfortable length is 60-80K, and thatās where the book will end up, heh.
We congratulate you on crossing that 50k mark, @domisotto.
As for my own writing, it's not been nearly as proficient. I got very busy with work over the last four days. Had car problems today which sucked up my free time and probably will for the rest of the week.So, my NaNo project is sitting at just shy of 20k with a week to go -- and what a week that will be. Seriously, November was the 11th or 12th worst possible choice to be Novel Writing Month. Next year, I think I might just start my own rebel novel writing month.
I'm just letting go of the 50k goal altogether. This was never feasible for me nor most people. The necessary padding would just get cut in the editing phase anyway. 25k or 30k would be a better fit for this story anyway.
P.S. Any publisher who rejects a book for being less than 100k is not worth anybody's time. The market trend ever since the iPad became a thing decades ago has been shifting towards novellas. They can be comfortably read within a week and fit even better into an audiobook adaptation which can be listened to during a week of lunches and-or commutes.
By some miracle from above I'm getting close to 45k. I think my story might actually hit the 60k mark, or at least come close to it.
