Thursday, 2 January 2025

Writing Challenge Day 2

Well, I hit the word count. In fact, I crossed the line just now at 2376 words, so I'm writing this quick before Only Connect comes on (love that show, but I never get a single thing right!)

Anyway, quick summary of the day. I'm off work for the Christmas break, so I managed to do most of the work during the day, but I'll hold my hands up and admit that I went into editing mode which ate up a good few hours. A little change in Chapter 2 had a bit of a knock-on effect which meant deleting quite a chunk of chapter 1. I also needed to write a new opening. 

This is something I was thinking about last night. The story kicks off with the MC looking at an old house, but the village where the main action takes place acts as a crucible. Therefore, I wanted to have a metaphor for crossing into the forbidden world. I liked the idea of the village being cut off by a flooded road. I went down a few false paths, but ended up with fairly clean copy.

Just a quick note on writing software. I'm writing this manuscript with LibreOffice. I've ditched Scrivener for this project for few reasons. First of all, too many distractions. I tend to play with other things, so I thought if I have just a single window, I might be able to focus better. I've got also made a spreadsheet in LibreOffice to keep track of word counts and daily targets. 

LibreOffice Writer is very much like Word. And I can use it in with a windows theme to make the screen dark grey with white text, much like Scrivener's Dark Mode.

Okay, the story so far. 

New words: 2376. 

Current word count: 4314

Words to go: 63,748  


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