FastDraft progress-Day One
Sep. 18th, 2006 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shalannaThis was the first official day of FastDraft. I did about twenty-two pages (Courier New 12 pt, double-spaced, yadda yadda) in three sessions. Did twenty minutes early this morning, went back to bed for an hour (grin), got back up at 9:45 and typed until almost noon (when I was lured in by the TV and the promise of rabbit food), and then typed for a little while this afternoon. I don't know if I'll KEEP all those pages, and some of them are definitely going to get reworked, but there they are.
Hmm. It does take a while to type twenty pages. I know I'm a fast typist, and hubby has always bragged to people about that, but still.
I knew where I was going, though. I already had the first three chapters of this Ranch Romance. I had done research about the kid falling into the "pit" (a shallow gully) and twisting her ankle, and I needed to rescue her. I made the scene funny, and she isn't seriously hurt, and everyone turns against everyone else. It might fly. What the hey.
You could try FastDraft next time. The class is free! But there's a lot of typing involved. Not to mention thinkin'. Too much thinking can wear out your brain, so be warned.
On Wednesday I have not only my noontime Pook's Peeps Critique Group meeting, but also the organizational meeting of the Dallas chapter of the Writers' League of Texas at 7. That'll mean I'd better space out my "meals" (protein shakes/oatmeal, basically, as I've found that if I eat one of the meal bars a day as they say nondiabetics can, I don't lose any weight that week) so I can make it all day. The family is already lobbying for me to skip one or both, as they don't want me to be overcommitted. But I'm going to go, even if I don't make my twenty pages that day. I think I need to get out more.
If you don't already have a copy, take a look at the Turkey City Lexicon for writers of SF/Fantasy. The terms may be useful to those writing fiction of any stripe.
Hmm. It does take a while to type twenty pages. I know I'm a fast typist, and hubby has always bragged to people about that, but still.
I knew where I was going, though. I already had the first three chapters of this Ranch Romance. I had done research about the kid falling into the "pit" (a shallow gully) and twisting her ankle, and I needed to rescue her. I made the scene funny, and she isn't seriously hurt, and everyone turns against everyone else. It might fly. What the hey.
You could try FastDraft next time. The class is free! But there's a lot of typing involved. Not to mention thinkin'. Too much thinking can wear out your brain, so be warned.
On Wednesday I have not only my noontime Pook's Peeps Critique Group meeting, but also the organizational meeting of the Dallas chapter of the Writers' League of Texas at 7. That'll mean I'd better space out my "meals" (protein shakes/oatmeal, basically, as I've found that if I eat one of the meal bars a day as they say nondiabetics can, I don't lose any weight that week) so I can make it all day. The family is already lobbying for me to skip one or both, as they don't want me to be overcommitted. But I'm going to go, even if I don't make my twenty pages that day. I think I need to get out more.
If you don't already have a copy, take a look at the Turkey City Lexicon for writers of SF/Fantasy. The terms may be useful to those writing fiction of any stripe.
