Comments | cjmarsicano: Vacation (writing hiatus), Day 7

cjmarsicano

Vacation (writing hiatus), Day 7

Jul 10, 2009 00:37

The manuscript is now up to 154,140 words as of Thursday. I cannot help but feel proud. Tempted to do a little more but am undecided as to where to continue. I went over some of the freewritten scenes that I have left and I cannot decide right now which one to start cleaning up. Perhaps I will start another need-to-write scene entirely before ( Read more... )

here is the wonderland, writing

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glider July 10 2009, 06:03:20 UTC

Damn, that's a hell of a long book. How many pages is it so far?

cjmarsicano July 10 2009, 06:30:26 UTC

Right now the file comes out at 346 single-spaced pages - which isn't bad compared to say, your average Steven King book which runs about twice that. There's still a couple of major hunks of story to put into the manuscript itself - some of it I'm working on in separate Word files, and some of it is a list of scenes that I plan on writing.

glider July 10 2009, 06:33:41 UTC

When do you project that it'll be finished?

cjmarsicano July 10 2009, 06:40:49 UTC

This first draft I am hoping to finish before summer ends, and I am shooting for finishing it by the end of July. After that, I let the manuscript sit for a week, start looking for agents, and start work on the second draft, which will involve saving a copy the finished first draft file under a slightly different file name (OK, adding the words 'second draft' to the end of the original file name) before making any corrections/changes/etc.

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fuctrack July 10 2009, 11:47:34 UTC

It's your birthday? : D HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

cjmarsicano July 10 2009, 15:10:26 UTC

Actually, it's next week (the 17th), but thank you! :)