Arrived this week: a big bag of Cosmos magazine back issues and 25 submissions redirected from Damien’s in box to mine. Remind me why I signed up for this gig again…
I’m not doing Nanowrimo but am hammering away at my current novel project full boar. Two thousand words down in a dedicated writing day seems to be an average kind of achievement, yet several pro writers I know routinely spew forth 3,500. How do they do it? My brain is jelly by about this point of late afternoon and I have to crawl off into a hot bath to sip restorative sav blanc and watch back episodes of Global Village on my laptop.
Ordered a Kindle the other day but it hasn’t arrived yet. Hurry up you bastards — I’ve got reading I want to do and Wollongong print book retail doesn’t cut it.
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Congrats on the Cosmos gig! And welcome back to editing… sucka!!!
I’m sure you’ll do a great job. Now do another Agog.
I just bought a kindle and verily it rocks my world.
I’ve written you a rejection slip already, Payne, just in case you were planning to submit…
Personalised pre-emptive rejection slip! Cool!! Can I have one, too?
nah. Payne is a special case.
Oh, I’m not disputing that … but I can’t help feeling slighted, nonetheless.
(And things have come to a sorry state, indeed, when it comes down to a matter of rejection-slip envy.)
you could always sub a story and hope for a genuine rejection slip!
Re: bookshops — Hobart has one pretty much on every corner. *sigh* And fabulous alcohol wherever you look. *sigh* And Federation chocolate. *sigh*
Re: wordcount — Maybe I’m some kind of lazy slut or other (question of the day: what kind of lazy slut am I?), but on two occasions I’ve cranked out 5,000 words or thereabout in a day and had to go have a lie-down in a darkened room with a cool cloth on my forehead. I absolutely do not know how the 10K-a-day people do it. Do they actually *keep* large percentages of those words?
Re: Cosmos — you so freakin rock.
Yeah, I wonder how many of the 5-10k a day folks keep their words. Cos I don’t go backwards on my precious 2k. I bulk em out but rarely subtract anymore on account of meticulous plotting.
I used to spew forth an average of 4000 words a day. Now I’m pleased with myself if I produce 2000. There are lots of reasons I slowed down, not the least that my back is stuffed, but also because those 2000 words don’t need as much work as the old 4000.
The amusing thing is, I used to feel inadequate next to Jenny Fallon, who could produce 10,000 words on a good day, and seemed to have a lot of good days.
Don’t compare word counts. What matters is that you write at a rate that’s enjoyable to you (and meets deadlines).
aye aye Cap’n!