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You look new here, look who's talking, I am too, so welcome to the Writing Club and QQ too.
But I'm writing, or attempting to write, a psychological dystopian cyberpunk thriller set next century in a future United States where people can upload their minds to quantum computers to in theory...
A bit more of what I wrote yesterday.
I'm looking to use my time off to get most of the rough draft finished during what will be the long weekend for me.
Happy 4th in advance.
I didn't see a thread for technical site questions here, so I'm just asking for the future:
Can we post cover images for our stories on here?
How can I put a story synopsis banner in my thread?
I'm watching the BB-code thread to read it later too, but it's been killing to ask these question...
This morning I managed to vomit up 2,102 words, which brought me up to a grand total of 4,500 words then.
I've been working mostly non-stop since then, this weekend I'm using for relaxing, so I have more to add. I'm just being lazy and not counting the words up across chapter documents.
Here's...
Spent some time in the writing wilderness.
I did finish the outline, I've got a roadmap for the story to guide the most pantsing I've done ever, but I had to rework a few details and that took longer than expected. Since I didn't do much writing during that time, I couldn't count that towards...
I strictly cut myself off at 1,200 words tonight because I need to get this damn outline done, so I'm dedicating the rest of the night to it.
(I'm also considering just posting here every two days or so, since I'd rather not spam the thread, be under the gun to report every night, and I'll have...
I did another 1,200 words ... for a random scene ... for about three hours after work, but I'm going to chillax for a bit before resuming the outline, which I added a plot twist that I wound needed chart out more fully. Finally, I'm seeing the end of this.
I did the standard 1,200 words this morning, before resuming the outline after tackling some non-writing stuff today. I've got enough surviving hours in the day to finish this outline, which mean I'm free to just worry about drafting next! 😉
I'll share the progress with y'all soon.
I'm definitely using the thread to stay on task, so I'm appreciate that you and the mods have got the time.
Now for commitments, I've got good news and bad news.
Good News: I wrote my first 1,200 words, though much that is for the end of the novel since I immediately knew how I was closing it...
Starting this Saturday, I'm going commit myself to writing at least 1,200 words a day on my novel, Sys Admins vs. Cryptic Souls.
Probably need to write more to meet my two-month completion goal for my novel, but it's a start.
I'm not starting just yet since I've gotta finish up some outlining...