Anne N. Mouse: Blog

I've definitely been in the groove for the past couple of days. Both of them saw me expand my story by no less than a thousand words. Today was more than two thousand, plus a tiny bit of smoothing. Not really polishing yet, but checking names of people and places.... Changing word order in places, and adding stuff, 'cause when I roll like today, I tend to not get everything written.... I still have places where I need to clarify things I've jumbled (dyslexic here remember) so that what's on the page makes sense....
Still if I can find an ending for my story it's definitely looking to be a fair sized novel.

Bleach! I'm still working on learning to use yWriter. Everything I'm seeing, from pasting in pieces of what I've got going currently says that it really is a very powerful tool which I'm not using to its full potential.

The swarm cycle author's list has seen what I've written so far and if I keep on my current pace I'm hoping to have a fair sized novel by the end of this year if not sooner. I don't have a word count goal for the story, but just what I've already got done, if I called it complete, which it certainly isn't would probably edit out to be nearly as long as On Dog Creek I'm aiming for no less than sixty thousand words, with a potential of one hundred thousand, but only time shall tell, because to a certain extent, I write by the seat of my pants 😋

Err dyslexia, and other assorted or related problems. On the dyslexia front, I was working on writing this morning and due to a habit I'm trying to form I put my ending word count in my document before I started.... Except I didn't! My end word count was say 647, but I'd put down 674... Worse, I just happened to add exactly enough words to bring the actual count to 674! Much frustration and confusion (plus lost time) ensued!
After that I wrote and added 300+ words to the story... Oh, yeah you can assume that the 647 is just the hundreds count, not the entire amount of words in my current story. After that I struggled a bit with the usage of whom... I'm thinking I got it correct, but I'll probably be asking for a volunteer editor in a bit. After all right now chapter 1 is about 3500 words but chapter 2 is about 13000 words which will make for an awkward balance but may be inevitable. I'm getting very close to having averaged at least 300 words of production every day since Oct 28 last year. Some of that is due to having days during Dec especially when I wrote nothing at all. The rest is down to my current physical limitations. Half an hour in a chair drives me to bed. Not to walk, which it probably should do...
Well this has been a rather longer than I intended report or is it a rant?

For the most part I've been grinding away at my newest writing effort and having good success at maintaining the habit of reaching my current goals. Of course most of that is due to not currently working.
Of course I'm also not sure what I might be able to do as far as work goes. If I can keep up the pace however I might start a Patreon page. I'd not consider it asking too much to receive a dollar from supporters if I can turn out 1,500-2,000 or so words per week. Or put another way, six to eight thousand words per month.
Of course there might be inspired days, rather than grinding days when I'd hit two thousand words in a day.
Of course there are other considerations as well, such as coming to a conclusion or an end to the current story... Would I end it well? Would I have something else ready to start when this one ends?
Oh and finally, would I get any actual support?

Today, between adding notes to the yWriter file for my current project and actually working on said project, I'm pretty sure that I'm approaching at least a thousand words. Certainly I spent more than an hour in my chair. OUCH!!
I'm actually quite pleased, even if my note taking and name transfer caused me to end up doing some minor polishing on my story. At least I didn't get so caught up in the polishing that I failed to extend the story.😁