I've been having some internet trouble but really should have found time to post here anyway.
The scene from my last entry ended up at 1486 words.
I wrote the next mini-scene (it's kind of the end to the previous scene)- 488 words. The scene is really choppy but it's there now, on paper, where it can be edited and improved (instead of locked in my head). So that is really good, even if I really don't like the way it came out.
My current total is 6988 words. My total target is 30,000. This is just a rough guess of how much length is left in the story. I really don't care how much under or over 30,000 the end of the book is- I just want to finally reach it. :) (The other 87,000 or so words is in another project on another computer. I'm leaving them separate so I can treat this as a separate project and not go back to reread old crap or worry about that stuff. I don't need to think about the old stuff til later.)
Now that I'm caught up... can I just say again how much I hate my previous scene. yuck, yuck but it's there.
Also, I am reading Clash of Kings right now. I am not liking it. It is filled with boring. I thought the first book, he did a nice job of skipping the boring stuff, summing up what happened since we last were in that POV and then getting to the next conflict. Now we start at a boring point, experience every minute of it and flip to another person being boring.
I think he could have possibly skipped this book altogether.
And since I always try to break it down to use for my own stuff: just because something is technically [quote] happening [unquote] doesn't mean something is happening. You know? But how to know when it's interesting conflict and when it's just boring? I guess that's what first readers are for (once I smooth out all the stuff I already know is boring, obviously.
