The Long Walk 4: Why July To Me Baby

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Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

5k of words this month.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2015 03:34

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 22:20

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Clarkesworld

I will drop everything and do science fiction. At least 5k, per the above. Submitted to Clarkseworlde. So shall I :toxx:

# ¿ Jul 4, 2015 06:28

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Yeeeah boy. Prompt me and I'll prompt you.

Someone's sense of timing causes a small mistake that prevents a larger one

# ¿ Jul 4, 2015 08:47

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Two men are alone on a large boat, but neither can remember how they got there.

You're a right proper fucker for making me work that into a scifi story that, from what I'd come up with so far, was gonna take place on a space colony.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2015 20:30

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

He said boat, he means boat.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2015 01:52

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

About 1k but have set aside time to jam out the next 5k and submit.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2015 07:51

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

I'm probably gonna eat the toxx this month. My laptop broke, and that's slashed my writing time totally to shreds.

If this were thunderdome I'd be at your throat.

But it's not, so my sympathies, and I hope you find your way through this time without too much hassle

# ¿ Jul 22, 2015 23:37

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 22:20

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

That's just for my Long Walk Project, I had about 3k for another thing too.

AFTER ACTION REPORT:

I made heavy use of both Scrivener's tools and pomodoro timing (using http://www.tomighty.org/ which is a good app for that, thanks whoever linked me originally).

I put more (see: any at all) effort into consciously constructing scenes instead of just typing ideas until things seemed like they were good to move on. This really helped me whittle poo poo down to "what am I trying to convey", which has always been a problem, instead of having a lot of meandering trash that never quite reaches a coherent point.

We'll see if Clarkesworld notices my efforts to improve. If not I have one other publication lined up, and then I guess I can toss it on Amazon? What're people's angles for doing for that sort of "make-money-from-this" action these days?

# ¿ Aug 1, 2015 08:21

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