If I spend the entire day at the cafe, is that a bad thing?

[apocalypsos]

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I didn't get as much done as I would have I liked yesterday, mostly because -- and I didn't even realize this until I changed from web view to print view in Open Office -- I hit my average chapter length on chapter seven and was still going on the scene. Heh. Oops?

I'm doing really well with it, in any event. I know what the next two chapters involve, so I just have to buckle down and write them today. That'll catch me up to the level I was at before I slacked off yesterday and will also mean I'll be starting with chapter ten when I wake up tomorrow. Oh, hello there, book! :D

I'm not doing a checklist of all of the chapters I've gotten done like I did with GPW. I'm going from start to finish with this story, which is weird and new for me, so I really have no idea how many chapters we're talking about here. I want to say it'll definitely be more than usual, since my average is somewhere around 35 to 40 and this one's looking to be something like fifty chapters, but that's mostly due to the way I've set up the chapters. Every time I break for a scene, I go to a new chapter. Hey, whatever works.

I feel like I'm talking to myself because every time I start talking about this book I imagine everybody drifts off like when Elliot and Carla talk about shoe shopping on Scrubs. Heh.

Also, I keep having to remind myself that it's not fanfic if you want to write a missing scene from the book you're writing. But ... but ... it's hot! And it's femmeflash! Canon femmeslash! And it's twisted! (Of course, it also happens before the events in the story and I'm trying to avoid flashbacks for a change, SO. Hmph.)

Comments

[ficangel.livejournal.com]

Heee. I like reading entries about you being happy.

[slashfairy.livejournal.com]

i don't comment on the writing much but i enjoy reading along about your process. it gives me confidence that my own process is not so awful and strange.

[narrelle.livejournal.com]

Surely your icon is from No Heroics???

[fyrdrakken]

Go ahead and write the missing scene and save it, and then when you sell the book and are having fun flailing on LJ during the various rundown to publication, you'll have it available to release as a promotional cookie, like sarahtales has been doing. (Although not with excised sex scenes, I think.)