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Apr. 15th, 2007 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienOkay, it looks as though the story and the other thing are coming with me to New Mexico. It doesn't make sense to stay up all night staring at the screen, not tonight.
Defector is at 26,842 words, with maybe three scenes to go, give or take, after which it probably needs major revisions to inject some actual interest into what seems to have turned into a really, really, slow, boring, and talky thing that was supposed to be a sort of psychological thriller. Maybe it just feels slow because I've been chipping away at it for so long, but really, almost nothing has happened in this story in the month+ I've been working on it this time around. (The characters have been slowly unraveling the mystery, but they do this mostly by sitting -- or lying -- around talking, and I'm not sure the climax is going to be enough payoff for 20,000 words of that.) This does cause me to wonder a bit about how useful the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
thing_in_150 thing is for me. Yes, I've trained myself to turn out 500 words a day, pretty much regardless, but are they useful words? And is it worth the cost, which seems to be that I get almost no reading done and never get to sit down and think about what happens next more than a couple of scenes ahead?
Defector is at 26,842 words, with maybe three scenes to go, give or take, after which it probably needs major revisions to inject some actual interest into what seems to have turned into a really, really, slow, boring, and talky thing that was supposed to be a sort of psychological thriller. Maybe it just feels slow because I've been chipping away at it for so long, but really, almost nothing has happened in this story in the month+ I've been working on it this time around. (The characters have been slowly unraveling the mystery, but they do this mostly by sitting -- or lying -- around talking, and I'm not sure the climax is going to be enough payoff for 20,000 words of that.) This does cause me to wonder a bit about how useful the
thing_in_150 thing is for me. Yes, I've trained myself to turn out 500 words a day, pretty much regardless, but are they useful words? And is it worth the cost, which seems to be that I get almost no reading done and never get to sit down and think about what happens next more than a couple of scenes ahead?