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Morgan Briarwood ([personal profile] briarwood) wrote2008-02-07 09:09 pm
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Still writing...

This would be my "*wave* I'm still here" post :-)

Word count on Sweet Charity fic: 5000.

My first draft (on paper) is all finished. The word count above is what I have typed up, which leaves three pages of notes still to go. I was hoping I'd finish tonight so I could print a copy to proof and revise tomorrow, but I'm too tired. I'll finish tomorrow and with a little luck I can finish the revisions on Saturday, then get it off to my trusty beta.

I'm coming down with something, I think. Right now it's just a dry cough I can't seem to shift, but that's bad enough. If I can't shift it by Saturday I'll have to skip the cinema - someone coughing their lungs out through a movie is so annoying. I don't want it to be me!

Uh...I'm too tired to come up with an interesting post, guys. Sorry about that.
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[identity profile] krazykipper.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
*waves*

Wow, that's a long SC fic.

[identity profile] morgan32.livejournal.com 2008-02-08 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
5000 words is not long!

[identity profile] krazykipper.livejournal.com 2008-02-10 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
Length is all about perspective, you managed to write 190,000 (was it?) so to us mortals of the writing world it seems long!

What's it up to now?

[identity profile] morgan32.livejournal.com 2008-02-10 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
Length is all about perspective, you managed to write 190,000 (was it?) so to us mortals of the writing world it seems long!

True, but Phoenix (http://creative-imperative.net/fiction/phoenix/) was an exception. It just needed a lot of words to tell the complete story.

The thing is, I can't tell a story in 500 words. I don't think anyone can, honestly. You can write a pretty intense scene, but actual plot takes more words than that. (And even porn has a plot, even if it's only from go to orgasm.) I just use however many words it takes to tell each story.

What's it up to now?

The finished second draft is 6750 words. All of 'em porn :-)

[identity profile] krazykipper.livejournal.com 2008-02-10 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
It's still a lot of words and very impressive, I just get bored with something after writing a few thousand. Plus, I don't really have enough talent to make it worth writing that much.

It's not really a whole story, but I like the short scene ones. Which is good because it's about all I can write.

\o/ That sounds good to me. Porn can never be bad if it's well-written. ;p
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