August 11, 2013

Hallelujah and pass the gravy!
My friend Superwriter has finally seen the light. After all my bellyaching about Dr. Wicked's Write or Die, she finally caved and tried it.
And she was amazed.
I know how incredible my own word production can be with the program, so in the hands of someone like Supe it will be a game changer. All these word count goals seem so much more attainable when you have the right tool for it.

It's just a tool, in the end. A tool with a learning curve of about a minute. What is not to love?
But the first time someone uses the tool is pretty exciting. Her mind was blown and she couldn't go to bed for a while she was that excited. Kind of like the first time someone hands you a funnel.

"Oh. Wow. This is exactly what I need."

That kind of moment.

Now for my daily report. Yes, you are seeing this early because YES, I finished early, because YES, I used Dr. Wicked the whole time.

I did three one hour sessions and came up with 3874. Only three scenes thus far. But ticking little boxes off the list is pretty exciting, even if it's just one or two. 16 scenes left, and some of them are pretty brief. I have high hopes of finishing in two days. I have nearly 28,000 words. When all is said and done and edited, I should end up around 43k. It's about twice as long as I'd expected. That always happens. I pretty much count on it. The first projection was for a 20k novella.

So, since I'm sitting at 124 words shy of 4000, I'm going to open the doc and write the opening to the next scene. Pretty dramatic, so the excitement is there. I won't update anymore today because I am going to get in the car with Rock and Rock Jr. and leave town. We have a giant haul of corn on the cob to hand out.

You know. Real life stuff. Human interaction. Maybe if I do this now, I won't have to be human again until next weekend.

Yawp!!!!