Six Of One...
Oct. 10th, 2007 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmerriamThe Good News: I finished the short story I started the other night. I'm estimating it at about 5300 words, hand written. I suspect I will cut it down to about 3500 to 4000 words total because--like most of my work--the story doesn't really get started until about a thousand words in. All the early stuff is excess world-building and other ramblings that are more for my benefit than anything else. Also, this is the first short piece I've finished this year.
The Bad News: It's written long hand in my notebook. Usually I transcribe what I wrote in my notebook to the laptop by the next day. I do this while the story is fresh in my mind because I have trouble reading my own writing. I wasn't able to do that this time and now I'm looking at the early part of the story and thinking: What is all this chicken scratch?
The Bad News: It's written long hand in my notebook. Usually I transcribe what I wrote in my notebook to the laptop by the next day. I do this while the story is fresh in my mind because I have trouble reading my own writing. I wasn't able to do that this time and now I'm looking at the early part of the story and thinking: What is all this chicken scratch?
