word count and chats

[julesjones]

Only 600 words on Saturday, but 1800 words on Sunday even with the interruption to go to the chat session at Romance Junkies yesterday evening. Another 800 already this morning, taking me over the 40,000 word mark for Spindrift. It is now officially novel length by SFWA definitions. I was hoping to have hit this mark a bit sooner, but progress is good at the moment, and I'm on target to get the first draft finished by the end of the month.

[update re paragraph below: ritaxis points out that it's not fair to provide a link to a site without warning that it comes from the "how many epileptic fits can we induce?" school of web design. Sorry. She phrased it more politely than that, but even the bits of it that I see with my non-Flash browser are somewhat eye-searing, and apparently if you have Flash you get even more blinking, in fluorescent colours, plus much shouting as well.]

The chat was fun, although a bit wearing on the typing tendons. Romance Junkies has a chat room where readers can go along to chat to authors, and my publisher Loose Id has a regular monthly chat there. Last night I was one of the three sacrifical victims, facing questions like "is it more inspirational writing clothed or naked?"... I'll swear the readers are having a competition to see who can come up with the weirdest questions. "Do you do *personal* research?" isn't that daft a question, considering what I write, but I suspect the answer of "no, I read a lot and ask friends" was somewhat disappointing. This in a chat room supposedly rated PG13.

Comments

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I went to look at that site. You should warn people about the talking, blinking, pink and yellow cartoon lady. I just about jumped out of my seat (the nice fellow keeps turning up the volume on things).

[niobedancing.livejournal.com]

lmao. Agreed. I love to go there though and listen to the British accent on the cartoon people. I have a thing for accents...