what day is it, anyway?
Nov. 16th, 2019 05:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatThe good news from yesterday’s writing: they are BACK FROM THE PAST! This is very exciting, even though it means now I can’t just handwave everything with the excuse that it was the past. (I mean, I’m sure I’ll still handwave a lot of things, but now I need a different excuse.)
The less good news from yesterday’s writing: hahaha you know that feeling when you’re halfway through the word count, but two thirds of the way through the story arcs?
ANYWAY, I did math to determine how much of an issue this might actually be, since I knew I hadn’t paid much attention to making the arcs equal length during the planning phase. And math says it is not CRISIS TIME yet. More like MILD CONCERN time.
According to the numbers, I’m 57% of the way through my notecards, and 53% of the way through the word count goal. And a 4% difference, in a 50,000 word story, is 2000 words. (I don’t really know how math works, but that sounds about right to me.). So, first let me say: if I get to the end of this story and I’m 2000 words short, I will cry.
But after I’m done crying, I will consider these possibilities:
*Let’s face it, I’m not going to wait till the end of the story to think about this again. And until the end happens, there’s always a chance it will just magically work itself out somehow. Historically this has not been an effective strategy for me, but it’s easy, so I like to keep it around.
*An epilogue. It’s a classic for a reason!
Yeah, that’s really the options.
The less good news from yesterday’s writing: hahaha you know that feeling when you’re halfway through the word count, but two thirds of the way through the story arcs?
ANYWAY, I did math to determine how much of an issue this might actually be, since I knew I hadn’t paid much attention to making the arcs equal length during the planning phase. And math says it is not CRISIS TIME yet. More like MILD CONCERN time.
According to the numbers, I’m 57% of the way through my notecards, and 53% of the way through the word count goal. And a 4% difference, in a 50,000 word story, is 2000 words. (I don’t really know how math works, but that sounds about right to me.). So, first let me say: if I get to the end of this story and I’m 2000 words short, I will cry.
But after I’m done crying, I will consider these possibilities:
*Let’s face it, I’m not going to wait till the end of the story to think about this again. And until the end happens, there’s always a chance it will just magically work itself out somehow. Historically this has not been an effective strategy for me, but it’s easy, so I like to keep it around.
*An epilogue. It’s a classic for a reason!
Yeah, that’s really the options.
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Date: 2019-11-16 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-17 12:50 am (UTC)*cheers you on*