by Michael La Ronn | Jan 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today is the first day where I didn’t have to sit down and grind. Cool! I officially started post-production of the novel. This will be a long post, but I’m getting my thoughts down as they may be useful to some of you. LOOPING The first order of business is to loop...
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
2463 words done today, and the novel is now DONE! Wow, what a ride. I started writing on December 19, so it took me about 30 days. If you take out the bad week I had, the actual number of writing days was around 21 or so. Not bad for a 60K novel written over the...
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
1956 words today. Good news and bad news. Good news is that I finished the final battle! Bad news is that I’m still not done (!!) This is officially the longest (first novel) I’ve ever written. I’m shocked that this thing is almost at 60K. I’m usually a 40K-50K guy....
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
2470 words today. It wasn’t because I wasn’t trying, though!!! I still have a pretty decent daily word count—better than yesterday. It’s just that this final battle is turning out to be the longest final battle I’ve ever written. Just when I think it’s over, there’s...
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
(If you have ever worked with lab rats or wild rats, see the bottom of this post for a request for help.) 2243 words today. Still not done! This novel is just deciding to take its time on its slow unwind to the end. I’ve never had a novel do this, honestly. The final...
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
716 words today. I don’t really have any excuses. I wrote myself into a corner and spent a lot of today burning calories to fix it. Also had to do some additional research to get a few facts right. Still writing the final battle… I’m not done writing for the night so...
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
5239 words today (!!!) I’m at 49,587 words, which is practically 50,000, and the novel’s still not done. I’ve just started writing the final battle, so I’m SOOOO close. I crushed it word-wise today. Here’s a breakdown of my writing sessions, which started around 9AM...
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
1724 words tonight. I’m not proud of this number since my word counts were increasing over the last two days, but it is what it is. I was in the middle of pretty important scene and I wrote myself into a corner not once, but twice. I had to scrap around 250 words each...
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
2427 words today. I beat my word count yesterday, which is a beautiful thing. I’m getting closer, but I still don’t see the end yet. The chapters I wrote today were definitely longer than I expected so I can’t see anything new yet. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. This...
by Michael La Ronn | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
2191 words today. I beat yesterday’s word count goal. Not by a lot, but improvement matters. I finally broke the 40K mark, which is a big deal. I fell short of my word count goal of 3000-3500 words again today, but I’m still making progress. I’m slightly behind where...
