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Words: 500ish, today?
Total words: 7400 or so
Neat things: My favourite Lebanese restaurant. Jack Ivey has a sweet tooth. Laine Hollister is nowhere near as good as she thinks she is.

I... appear to have a zeroth draft? It's full of holes but none of them are scene-sized. And I think the basic story works. Looks like I might make my secondary self-imposed deadline of "Friday" for a first draft.

I already know (or think I do) a couple of things I'll need to fix in revision. It's likely gonna need some chainsaw-type editing too, in addition to filling in those holes. Unless I decide to be happy with it at short-novelette length. I dunno, I have no idea how these things work. Honestly I have no idea what I'm even doing with this story. Sending it out, of course, but I don't have a particular market in mind.

Turns out writing is not easily a thing I can drop in and out of. This is at least a couple hours of Butt In Chair every day over the last four? days, plus just ... having the story at the back of my mind. Which makes sense, and it's an enjoyable place to be at least for now. It may make life difficult with school, though. Not to mention Actual Full-time Job.

Still. Story. Yay.

Date: 2023-08-03 02:44 am (UTC)
aamcnamara: (Default)
From: [personal profile] aamcnamara
Story! Yay!!

Date: 2023-08-03 03:41 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sartorias
Woo hoo! Get back in the groove, and I bet a lot of the self-editing kinks will work themselves out. Butt In Chair is the first step, oh yeah.

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"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen

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