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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #225 on: November 07, 2003, 02:04:05 PM »
My bad guy is awesome. You should read chapter 2 when I get all of it finished. It foreshadows into whats going to happen. I implore you all to read it, it's just so cool.

But yeah, he is awesome. He owns 3 different buildings, one of the 130 stories tall, one 78 stories, with 22 underground, and another building that has not been brought up yet. Although they are called the Tri-pair buildings. Heh.

And he's going to own channel nine soon, since they were doing one of those "tonight at 6" things, and it was going to be of the "bad side" of Ozymandias Incorporated. It's great. I love this character.

Mr. Jones is cool too. He's the dwarf from medival times. With super psionic powers of mindfulness. And there's the goblin that got sucked into "our world." That was a fun scene.

Heh, and the scientists were arguing over whether to use an orange or banana as a test subject. They ended up with the orange. The project name for the almost Stargate-esque portal is Union Star. So much foreshadowing. But now I have to return to the main characters and have them go on through the day. And stuffs.

Coming soon, my mortuary science class gets good use as the heros are sent to visit a funeral home/embalming room one evening. Look forward to the cool words I get to use and define and make with the words!
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #226 on: November 07, 2003, 06:54:56 PM »
My grand total for yesterday was 792.  Spent most of my time editing and printing.  My new total is in my sig.  Thanks for the updates, SE.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #227 on: November 07, 2003, 07:07:17 PM »
Sounds like a pretty cool story, Gemm. I've been slacking off today and I've only got 600 words so far. I have to meet my goal in the next two hours, so we'll see what I get.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #228 on: November 07, 2003, 07:40:57 PM »
My official word count (after fusing the two versions I was working with yesterday) was 10855.

Today I have 11434
Which puts me even with Fell for today's count. I expect to get more done than just two hours of work though
However, it's kind of a hazy part. I need to have Peks insult Isbeth enough to make her cry. That's right, I make little girls CRY! (wait... uh...). I also outlined most of the second part, I just need to figure out exactly what sort of mission he goes out on... the one where tragedy begins.

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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #229 on: November 07, 2003, 07:57:01 PM »
I downloaded your story yesterday Saint. Never got around to reading it though. I think that on the 15th i shall download all of them, read them, and then write a half way article commenting on who stayed in the contest and how the stories are shaping up.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #230 on: November 07, 2003, 08:41:02 PM »
I finished today's writing, squeaking over the line with 12,018 words. I'm quite pleaed with how it's shaping up, but I worry that I might not be able to tie it up in 50,000. We'll see. Also, I'll be sure to send SE a copy of the novel tomorrow so he can post what I have on his calendar.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #231 on: November 08, 2003, 12:58:15 AM »
ok, i had at least 900 words to go, and I was ready for them, but then couldn't decide between two ideas, and I was tired, so i just updated the calendar and went to bed. I'm still in the lead!

I've got ALL the information I've received on that calendar. If soemthing's missing, it's not my fault.

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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #232 on: November 08, 2003, 06:45:33 AM »
Today's total: 6,568 words.

Running total: 15,165 words.

Okay, so maybe Fridays are good for me too....
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #233 on: November 08, 2003, 08:53:55 AM »
What'd I tell you? That you'd be ahead by the end of the weekend. That's right. I hates you.....

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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #234 on: November 08, 2003, 03:57:02 PM »
Ha.  Just trying to keep you on your toes, my friend.  Things were going too easily for you.  You've got an entire Saturday--let's see what you can do, bucko.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #235 on: November 08, 2003, 05:41:36 PM »
Well, today I succeeded in cutting about 750 words.  That ought to be good for something.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #236 on: November 08, 2003, 06:14:08 PM »
yeah, well, I spent the first 4 hours of my day getting two oil changes (yes, I'm considerably pissed about that), then going to a birthday dinner for my wife, and then a brief nap. so no, I don't have a full saturday, saturday is probably bad second only to Sundays in terms of how much time i have to write, unless I'm at work.

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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #237 on: November 08, 2003, 06:48:07 PM »
Given that my six month old did not sleep more than four consecutive minutes all night, and that I've got appointments all day, today has been shot. I'll have to do 2500 a few days next week to catch up.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #238 on: November 08, 2003, 07:26:32 PM »
There's still tonight! (when I plan to get it done... as in... right now...

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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #239 on: November 08, 2003, 08:56:59 PM »
Well, good luck.  15k's my total for the week; I won't have any time tonight to write, and I don't write on Sundays.  
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