Sun, 27 Apr 2003
Status ...
19 days, 83,000 words in. Blogging prognosis for next week:
light at first, due to exigencies of writing the climax to the
novel, picking up as the week goes on -- this one ain't
scheduled to run over 100,000 words on the first draft, and
at the current rate it should be nailed down on Wednesday.
Must resist the entirely stupid psychological pressure to break
down and try to prove that I can write a 100,000 word novel in
three weeks. That would be silly (and besides, it ain't true
-- I might be able to grind out a first draft, but the quality
would suffer and it would need more polishing later on).
Still, it's been a gas and it's confirmed for me that hitting
the ground hard and ploughing through the first draft fast helps
maintain consistency of vision (at the cost of polish). Plus,
it's a good warm-up exercise for the much bigger novel I'm
due to hand in this December and haven't really begun yet.
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