Archive for March, 2009

NPI: 2,176">NPI: 2,176

Boom! And with the end of NPI, my total word count = 20,251 Now, I’m glad that I man­aged to get over 20k words in 31 days (includ­ing the afore­men­tioned two-day week­end get­away) but ulti­mately, I’m ecsta­tic that I’ve managed

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NPI: 827">NPI: 827

Good writ­ing ses­sion today. I began a new chap­ter and got right into one of the two-sides of the murky gray line run­ning through my story. Just more divul­gence of truths between char­ac­ters that know, and don’t know what has

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NPI: 303">NPI: 303

It’s a Sun­day, and we got back from Ocean Shores today, so the low count is no sur­prise. I basi­cally cleaned up the last chap­ter so, as I move into the next, I have a clearer idea of what is

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NPI: 372">NPI: 372

More on the same scene. I also built upon the run-up to the ‘mid­dle’ por­tion of my book — the com­pli­ca­tion if you will, and fin­ished a chap­ter. I’m under the 20k mark and already I’ve hit the mid­dle act,

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NPI: 800">NPI: 800

Update on the pre­vi­ous scene’s dia­logue and the cre­ation of a sec­ond, and third scene of heavy dia­logue. I feel like Quentin Taran­tino some­times, what with all the efing and jef­ing (swear­ing) and quick back and forth-ing. Any­who, a good

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NPI: 1,007">NPI: 1,007

I’ve jug­gled the ‘details’ of my book’s goings on for a lit­tle bit now, but I think I’m get­ting to points where I can’t really talk about them with­out giv­ing away devel­op­ments that are inte­gral to the enjoy­ment of the

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NPI: 347">NPI: 347

Yay. Not a huge count today, but that’s com­pletely irrel­e­vant. I man­aged to fin­ish off the scene I have been work­ing on — heavy dia­logue, some expo­si­tion, motive and pieces being forced into place on the chess­board etc etc. Next, well

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NPI: 792">NPI: 792

Much bet­ter today. I might not have got­ten that ‘quiet’ time I was hop­ing for in the early after­noon, but I did man­age to focus a lot more whilst my daugh­ter went about destroy­ing play­ing in the liv­ing room. I have

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NPI: 267">NPI: 267

I guess they come in 3’s after all. Another rough ses­sion; I was tired, irri­ta­ble and had two kids need­ing me in var­i­ous capac­i­ties. The won­der I got any­thing done is, well a won­der. NPI word count sands at: 13,650

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NPI: 261">NPI: 261

As I would say, were I to revert to one of my British idioms; I did bog all today. I pretty much took the same scene I was doing yes­ter­day and improved on it in the amount of words I

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