more writing blather
Nov. 28th, 2009 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseNano-ing my brains out today, trying to not only catch up but hopefully to finish this blasted thing so that I can start up on the editing that it so very desperately needs.
Unfortunately, that requires pushing through about 7,000 words (which is totally do-able!) and (significantly less seemingly-do-able) finding 7,000 words' worth of scenes that I haven't actually written yet, not just things that I need to rewrite and edit and change slightly and so on, because, thanks to working in a gigantic document in a program that doesn't like gigantic documents, I've apparently hit a point where I have to write things in other documents to keep things from disappearing. Or something. I really haven't had time to look into exactly what's going wrong with my word-processing program (anybody else who uses Rough Draft run into anything like that at about 40,000 words?). Aaaaanyway, long story short, I'm kind of hitting walls all over the place, but I think it's working, and I'm going to be very happy when this thing is done. And, you know, ready for ungodly amounts of editing.
And thank god for BPAL (perfume of the moment is "Her Voice" - Hyacinth, beeswax, wild roses, vanilla amber, lily of the valley, tiger lily, honeysuckle, carnation, and heliotrope), Sarah Brightman (yes, really - a little light pop-opera mix that's mostly in a language I can't understand was apparently exactly what I needed in terms of music), and white rose tea. Which I'm going to go make some of just as soon as I hit a decent stopping point. Wheeeeeee.
Unfortunately, that requires pushing through about 7,000 words (which is totally do-able!) and (significantly less seemingly-do-able) finding 7,000 words' worth of scenes that I haven't actually written yet, not just things that I need to rewrite and edit and change slightly and so on, because, thanks to working in a gigantic document in a program that doesn't like gigantic documents, I've apparently hit a point where I have to write things in other documents to keep things from disappearing. Or something. I really haven't had time to look into exactly what's going wrong with my word-processing program (anybody else who uses Rough Draft run into anything like that at about 40,000 words?). Aaaaanyway, long story short, I'm kind of hitting walls all over the place, but I think it's working, and I'm going to be very happy when this thing is done. And, you know, ready for ungodly amounts of editing.
And thank god for BPAL (perfume of the moment is "Her Voice" - Hyacinth, beeswax, wild roses, vanilla amber, lily of the valley, tiger lily, honeysuckle, carnation, and heliotrope), Sarah Brightman (yes, really - a little light pop-opera mix that's mostly in a language I can't understand was apparently exactly what I needed in terms of music), and white rose tea. Which I'm going to go make some of just as soon as I hit a decent stopping point. Wheeeeeee.
