24 May 2010, Posted by Cat in News, 7 Comments. Tagged writing

wordcount

I haven’t been blogging much of late, probably because my life has contained little more than day job, writing, reading and binging on old Dr Who DVDs for the past few months. The last four days saw me extruding a whopping 14,000 words all up, pretty awesome considering that one of those days was spent up in Springwood visiting Rob’s mother. That puts me at the halfway or 50,000 word point on my current novel project. it’s coming together nicely, probably due to the vast amounts of time I’ve devoted to plotting, planning and executing my narrative drive.

I can do wordcount. Word extrusion is the easy part, its the fact of there being a point to the story and making that point an interesting experience for the reader that gives me grief. There’s a vast gulf of difference between writing and storytelling. I get it, I really do — can I produce it? That’s the million dollar question…