Well, I know this is blog is basically a dead body at this point, but that doesn't mean I've stopped harboring the desires for someday running a writer's community of some sort, and it seems like the people I gathered still wander over to see if there's fresh moss on the bones, so it seems like a new post isn't completely pointless.
So, here it is; a fast post up for the people who were around when I started what became the Lucky One project. I am still writing. I finished what I call the zero draft awhile ago. I got most my ideas, characters and plot lines down and promptly started writing over. At first I tried to edit what was written to form it to what I wanted, but I quickly discovered what is faster for me is rote re-writing. So that's what I've been doing, working on the first official draft of Lucky One.
Start to finish the zero draft ended with a word count of 55,000 words. So far on the re-write is at 32,000. It's hard to guess where the 1st draft will end up but my current guess would be around 80,000 words. I try to work on it everyday. But, I work and have a family and, as much as I try to focus and streamline my focus, I still have interests other than writing I have to attend to now and then. So once in a rare while when I have a lot of quiet and caffeine, I crank 4,000 words and still get all those Other Things done. Most days, I have to be happy to crank out 1,000 words before work and if Other Things are persisting, I have to be satisfied with little more than some light editing, which for me typically takes a word-count down.
I hope the rest of your writing writers keep on writing!
