Wednesday, November 20, 2013

TDKR Weapon of the Shadows Metrics 18


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METRICS
New Words: 1010
Total words for first draft: 34,376
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Bruce and Selina work things out.
Fave line: "Really? I told her to stay with Blake. That's how well she listens to me. We both need you, Selina."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Working through a headache that isn't responding to Aleve yet.
What I'm looking forward to: Posting everything I have backlogged on sewing projects, so I can concentrate on the new sewing project.
What I'm not looking forward to: Paying bills.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

TDKR Weapon of the Shadows Metrics 17


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METRICS
New Words: 1026
Total words for first draft: 34,366
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Gordon and Selina's reunion at the hospital.
Fave line: "How do I keep giving the impression that I'm a liar?"
What Else I Accomplished Today: I forgot to turning the AC units off last night, so I managed to get out of bed into a freezing house. That took willpower, damnit!
What I'm looking forward to: Posting everything I have backlogged on sewing projects, so I can concentrate on the new sewing project.
What I'm not looking forward to: Paying bills.

Monday, November 18, 2013

TDKR Weapon of the Shadows Metrics 16


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METRICS
New Words: 1018
Total words for first draft: 33,340
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Climatic fight is over.
Fave line: "You are lucky I'm not the executioner Ra's wanted me to be."
What Else I Accomplished Today: I finally got started on that pesky scene in the other novel.
What I'm looking forward to: Posting everything I have backlogged on sewing projects, so I can concentrate on the new sewing project.
What I'm not looking forward to: Paying bills.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

TDKR: One Rule Metrics 26


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METRICS
New Words: 1498
Prologue total: 708
Chapter One total: 2303
Chapter Two total: 3364
Chapter Three total: 3698
Chapter Four total: 2619
Chapter Five total: 2725
Chapter Six total: 3613
Chapter Seven total: 2208
Chapter Eight total: 5048
Chapter Nine total: 1403
Chapter Ten total: 2475
Chapter Eleven total: 2270
Chapter Twelve total: 3722
Chapter Thirteen total: 3486
Chapter Fourteen total: 2432
Chapter Fifteen total: 3058
Chapter Sixteen total: 2457
Chapter Seventeen total: 1634
Chapter Eighteen total: 2411
Total words for first draft: 51,698
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: I added the formerly Chapter Nineteen rough draft to Chapter Eighteen and now it's at an acceptable length.
Fave line: "Well, yes, I'm used to bad people having reasons for the bad things they do."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Got all my holiday meals shopping completed. Cooking it about two weeks away.
What I'm looking forward to: Picking up the rough draft now that I finally watched the pesky scene I had been avoiding.
What I'm not looking forward to: Shopping for a washing machine.

Saturday, November 16, 2013

TDKR: One Rule Metrics 25


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METRICS
New Words: 913
Prologue total: 708
Chapter One total: 2303
Chapter Two total: 3364
Chapter Three total: 3698
Chapter Four total: 2619
Chapter Five total: 2725
Chapter Six total: 3613
Chapter Seven total: 2208
Chapter Eight total: 5048
Chapter Nine total: 1403
Chapter Ten total: 2475
Chapter Eleven total: 2270
Chapter Twelve total: 3722
Chapter Thirteen total: 3486
Chapter Fourteen total: 2432
Chapter Fifteen total: 3058
Chapter Sixteen total: 2457
Chapter Seventeen total: 1634
Chapter Eighteen total: 913
Total words for first draft: 50,200
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Finished the one scene that was outlined for Chapter Eighteen and it came up too short. Time to renumber the chapters again.
Fave line: "When I see Gordon I'm nominating you for his fast-track to detective program."
What Else I Accomplished Today: I think I finally killed the washing machine.
What I'm looking forward to: See if I can coax anybody into commenting on Chapter Eighteen since it's full of viewpoint characters the readers don't like.
What I'm not looking forward to: Shopping for a washing machine.

Friday, November 15, 2013

TDKR Weapon of the Shadows Metrics 15


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METRICS
New Words: 1583
Total words for first draft: 32,322
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: I finished the rough draft! I also expanded out the word count because I have 23 handwritten pages left to go. I may not have expanded out enough.
Fave line: "Your gun don't shoot no more. You ruined it."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Figured out I will have to take fried chicken off my allowed foods list, though it may have been the biscuits with the fried chicken.
What I'm looking forward to: Posting everything I have backlogged on sewing projects, so I can concentrate on the new sewing project.
What I'm not looking forward to: Making myself watch the scene I need to. I keep moving away from the living room when I have time to do it. :p

Thursday, November 14, 2013

TDKR Weapon of the Shadows Metrics 14


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METRICS
New Words: 282
Total words for first draft: 30,739
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: I finished the second to last scene's rough draft and got started on the first scene of the fourth part.
Fave line: "I don't know what you're talking about, you ebony enthusiast of equity."
What Else I Accomplished Today: I finally picked up all my new prescriptions. Talk about sticker shock!
What I'm looking forward to: Posting everything I have backlogged on sewing projects, so I can concentrate on the new sewing project.
What I'm not looking forward to: Making myself watch the scene I need to. I keep moving away from the living room when I have time to do it. :p

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

TDKR Weapon of the Shadows Metrics 13


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METRICS
New Words: 764
Total words for first draft: 30,457
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Finished Part Three if I keep my current breaks of this story.
Fave line: "The Occupation made strange bedfellows. But you targeting all my friends in Gotham just isn't sporting, even if you missed Gordon by a mile."
What Else I Accomplished Today: I've finally got a grip on the second to last scene of the whole thing that I'm writing out in longhand. My outline didn't cover a lot of the emotional distress that the fight brought out.
What I'm looking forward to: Posting everything I have backlogged on sewing projects, so I can concentrate on the new sewing project.
What I'm not looking forward to: Making myself watch the scene I need to. I keep moving away from the living room when I have time to do it. :p