I opened Piratas last night and began working again, only to find that after a day full of inspiration and a notebook filled with more plot points to plug in, my writer’s block hadn’t fully subsided. The first chapter of the story is completely done and I’m well into the second. Keep in mind though, that there are only five; six if you include the epilogue. I ended up writing the Epilogue – made it short and sweet, less than a page – and formatting my pages with headers and footers with my name, the title, and the page numbers.
OpenOffice gave me trouble on Seven Days of Terror with the formatting so I’m curious to see what’s going to happen with this one. At least with this one I’m starting with a whole new document and haven’t gotten too far into it to confuse it (I hope!). I just hope I can get it figured out because I love OpenOffice and don’t want to have to go look at other options, which I may end up having to do anyway. I forced my wife to use it on the new computer I built her last year. She keeps track of certain things with spreadsheets and there have been a few occasions where large chunks of data get lost when she saves and exits. Looks like it might be back to the much-despised Microsoft Office for us, but we’re toughing it out as long as we can.
Anyway, when I started last night I was at an estimated 8,120 words. I ended up at 8,356. I know it doesn’t seem like much, but I was only working for about forty minutes and ten of that was spent trying to remember how to format the pages (It’s only my second time – give me a break!). Thirty minutes to write 236 words isn’t really that bad. I know people who spend a whole day and only average as many.
Piratas has officially graduated from 16% to the 17% mark; rounded to the nearest whole, of course!
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I keep a folder on my hard drive with the names of all my novels in it, with a note that says “scraps.” I know that even on those days when I produce words that don’t seem to work in the current novel, they’ll either work somewhere else, or in another project altogether.
Though, sometimes it’s just crap, too. LOL
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