Day Twenty-Eight

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Please post today's updates/excerpts/thoughts/etc. in comments.

Here's today's daily prompt for your updates, excerpts, any thoughts, etc.

Yesterday's post: Day Twenty-Seven


Still time to make your views heard on the Pico-futures thread.

Comments

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

OK, my word count on chapter 5 has reached 5690 and I think, just maybe, that's where it ends and chapter 6 begins. Since chapter 4 was 6230 my total for the month (excluding the two stock-pile scenes) is around 11000. I think I shall declare myself satisfied with that, and maybe take a couple of days off before cleaning them up a little and then attacking chapter 6.

Excerpt:
As he sought to bring out all the nuances of the Vision's contemplation, Michael was struck by how ordinary and how pertinent it seemed. The names had changed, but the idea of interrogation was very topical, and hiding thoughts behind a mask had become an essential part of life for him. Perhaps, he mused, that was why the Fathers had given him this particular Vision. But if so, what did they want him to make of it? Was it a warning against the course he was on, or against the bishop's approach?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

11000 words and 2 new chapters is brilliant - you must be chuffed to bits! :-D

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

That's very impressive, and (as I recall) well in excess of your original picoaims. Well done. I hope that you're going to give yourself a reward?

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

total for the month is around 11000
Excellent!

[paranoidangel]

That's brilliant.

[tawek.livejournal.com]

Well done.

And you're underselling yourself. 5690+6230=11910.
That should round up to 12,000 words!

What was your original aim? 5,000 words?

I think you deserve a bonus :)

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

Ah, but that 11910 includes two stock-pile scenes, so I rounded down to account for them, giving 11000 actual new words.

But yes, my original aim was one chapter, being probably 5000 words.