End Day Two

[alexmegami]

The site that hosted the update bar I usually use is down, so here's my new updater bar until it's back:



Not nearly as fast as yesterday, but still meeting the minimum word counts. 3% ahead of schedule. Will try and write at least another thousand words before bed tonight.

In other news, I probably shouldn't drink energy drinks. Duh, me.

Oh well. Maybe those thousand words will only take one hour instead of two.

Comments

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

Wow...the idea of writing that much in that little time is mind-boggling to me. I kinda did it with my IB extended essay, and I wrote 3000 words in a day when I did the "Testimony of a Cynical Christian" LJ entry, but I've never written anything as long as 4962 words, let alone written it in three days. (Can you tell I have major anxiety over essay writing?)

[alexmegami]

Well, this is a little different. :) Fiction, where it's definitely not being marked and where I'm doing it pretty much to prove that I can isn't nearly the same as, say, essays to prove scholastic knowledge. ;)

I think the most words that I ever wrote for a single item was "Ashes", which was a fiction comic script for The Draper that clocked in at just under 6000 words. If I combined all the essays I've ever written in a single month, it probably goes over 10,000.

...I guess I also shouldn't mention that I stayed up until 4AM pushing it over 7000 words, making it officially the longest thing I've ever written. And it's not even in prose format. *rubs eyes*

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

wowwww.
I would take a long time to write fiction. I haven't done it since, like, grade 6, though. I think I would feel quite self-conscious about my writing.

[alexmegami]

Yeah, it's hard to get over that part, especially when your inner perfectionist is going, "that's not the EXACT word you want, now is it?" and meanwhile your deadline is going "minutes slowly slipping by!"

It's sort of the idea - to shut off the inner critic until you have those 50,000 words/a complete story - and THEN your critic can come back out and rip out the swaths of text you hate, and all those niggly points you just weren't quite sure about can be fixed. :)

[macamhaoilein.livejournal.com]

Good for you Alex! You have made a significant dent at 9%!

I know this because everytime I handed in an essay late and got docked 10% a day for lateness, my final grade was always significantly lower. Funny that, huh? ;)

So I indeed know the significance of what 10% is. Ok, I know you're at 9%... but really, whats 1%? Pssshaaw! ;)

[alexmegami]

*grins* I'm up to almost 15% now. ;)