consistent wordage

[julesjones]

I said two weeks ago that I had pulled out one of the fragments from the Torchwood fanfic folder and started working on it in an attempt to get back into writing at least a little every day. It was mostly only around a hundred words a day, and I skipped two days (once because I got hit by a short but intense cold, and once because I spent the evening watching the relevant episode and some bits of others for research), but I did write regularly and I finished it this afternoon, with around 4700 words in total.

Still not sure if it's worth posting to bramble_jam, but at least I did manage to write consistently for two weeks, which is better than I've done pretty much since I started the day job last year. I'd deliberately picked up a piece of fanfic where I'd be perfectly happy to keep the finished piece on my hard drive and thus there was no pressure to Get It Right. Now to see if I can keep it up with a commercial piece, i.e. that L&M sequel I've been wanting to write for over a year.

Comments

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Go you! I'd be very interested to see what you've produced.

I've been persevering with writing something virtually every day, and now have a completed novella and short story (with an almost certain home for the latter) out being beta'd.

[julesjones]

I hope you get somewhere with selling them. Fingers crossed that the sale for the short doesn't fall through (I've been paid for two stories that never appeared, and while it's nice to have the money...)

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The anthology's editor really liked the short, but I'm still paranoid that the publisher will either hate it or will decide not to go through with the book after all.