Does not compute

So I've got the end-of-work-week tireds and I've hit a point where I need to do some stitching in a dramatic scene and then move onto several more big dramatic scenes and my brain just can't do it tonight. So I'm taking my writerly bat and ball and going home. Hopefully it will make more sense in the morning than it does right now!

Still, the page count has increased a little and that's the main thing at this point. Now, where's my couch?


Progress - Witch 1

New pages - Two
Intriguing things - Return of the missing
Annoyances - Brain not working
Music - The Killers - Mr Brightside at the desk
Linear/Non-linear - Linear
Location - Scrivener at the desk
Taking care of Mel - Evil herbal potions. Very very very boring food. Meditation
Muse food - Nora

Down with rice cakes

Man, I'm over this diet already. Boring. Boring. Boring. Boring food.
So I'm calling it quits for the night and will take my crankiness out on some dishes and watch House re-runs and hope everything feels better in the morning. At least tomorrow's the last day of the day job week. I might even be able to finish this draft this weekend given I've hit 300 pages.


Progress - Witch 1

New pages - Six
Intriguing things - I'm sure something will seem intriguing when I re-read but crankiness is making it all seem dumb tonight.
Annoyances - it's all dumb
Music - The Killers - Mr Brightside at the desk
Linear/Non-linear - Non (though I'm running out of non to be non with).
Location - Alphie on the train. Scrivener at the desk full screen
Taking care of Mel - Evil herbal potions. Very very very boring food. Walkies.
Muse food - Nora and House soon.

Get your motors running

Well it's not exactly an inspired charge to the end but it's heading in the right direction. Not bad for a work day. I even alphied on the train. Writing on the train is a sure sign I'm either right into a book or just want it to be done : )

Progress - Witch 1

New pages - Twelve
Intriguing things - They put it all together
Annoyances - heroes being mercantile
Music - Whole soundtrack on the iPod and The Killers - Mr Brightside on the headphones at the desk
Linear/Non-linear - Linear.
Location - Alphie on the train. Scrivener at the desk with think and full screen
Taking care of Mel - Evil herbal potions. Very very boring food. Meditation. Walkies
Muse food - La Nora. The girls want La Nora.

Keep on trucking

Monday is usually my writing day off but I think I only have about four or five more scenes to go for this draft (which will make it offically the shortest first draft ever but what the heck at this stage), so I'm just going to keep writing this week and see if I can get it done. Fixing it comes later. For now I just want the story on paper so I can figure out what the girls were getting at when they came up with this darn idea. So I'll be over here typing if anyone wants me. But not tonight. I'm still detox headachey today and have done about all I can do without risking my brain melting. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be done with the headache thing!

In other news, Melbourne continues its attempts to give us all meterological whiplash. After some cold and frigid winter-is-here-tremble-ye-mortals weather (with added tail end of hurricane gales bonus) all last week, today was warm and sunny. And apparently should get to about 28 by Friday. Just as well I didn't switch to the winter doona as I'd been planning to do last weekend!

Progress - Witch 1

New pages - Six
Intriguing things - Risk taker
Annoyances - World issues. How to kill a demon
Music - Scissor Sisters Comfortably Numb - headphones at the computer
Linear/Non-linear - Linear.
Location - Scrivener at the desk with think and full screen
Taking care of Mel - Evil herbal potions. Still very boring food. Meditation. Pilates
Muse food - Gilmore girls

Nearly

Darn. I didn't get the 12 pages I was hoping for. Only eight. Mostly due to the fact that the stonking great 'I'm on detox type diet' headache that I was hoping I'd missed out on after it didn't arrive yesterday, arrived today. Which meant I spent most of the afternoon staring at a computer screen and thinking "my head hurts". But also because I had to stitch some bits I'd written together and that's always a bit slower than just drafting.

Still, I'm almost at 70k. I don't think this draft is going to get anywhere near 90k, which is what both the Wolf books first drafts came too. Probably just over eighty unless something brilliant that I haven't thought of that needs to happen before the end occurs to me in the next few days.

This is much more talking heady than either of those (and I thought Wolf 2 was talking head city) as evidenced by the fact that my actual word count is almost 19k!!!!! behind my page count wordcount. The Wolf books run at about 10k shorter. So I have at least 10k in just basic 'hey there should be some setting and stuff' in here to do. Plus probably another 5-10k of layering. I also think I'm missing a thread somewhere which will hopefully appear in these last 40-60 pages or so and let me know what I've missed. And that will take me up to 100k+ Or else my brilliant critique partners will have to be brilliant once I've done more grunt work filling in the gaps. One of the joys of writing. I tend to like first drafting more than revising, it's fun to just play. But this book is going to be a 'make it pretty in the revision/s' job all the way.

Regardless, it is now McDreamy time and I'm calling it quits for the weekend.

Progress - Witch 1

New pages - Eight
Intriguing things - Magical interference
Annoyances - The nagging sense of missing something. Grumpy Mr Hero
Music - Mika - Happy ending/Over my shoulder. iPod/Nothing
Linear/Non-linear - Linear.
Location - Alphie on the couch/Scrivener at the desk
Taking care of Mel - Evil herbal potions. Very boring food.
Muse food - Muses on a diet along with me due to headache