Remember my big plans for the weekend?

Fugitaboutit.

Didn't happen. Various reasons, all it boils down to is I didn't write this weekend.

So what do I do today? 1588 words on my college writing project, finishing up the first chapter (which is what one of the universities wants for my admissions package). The others want between 30-50 pages, so I'll continue pecking away at this one over the summer, but at least I have the first chapter done so I can start polishing it.

(Word of warning, LJ-ers, I may hit a couple of you up for suggestions/critiques on this first chapter later this summer. I want in this program, so I'm going to make sure the sample is as polished as I can possibly make it.

Oh, and after I finished the college project, I knocked out 1069 words on Childhood's Tears.

So, basically I went from producing no words to nearly catching up on what I owed over the weekend plus. Who knows? Maybe the couple of days of not writing recharged me or maybe I was sick and tired of being lazy. Don't know, don't care as long as words are getting done now.

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On a different subject, dzeytoun and I went to see Forbidden Kingdom yesterday. I rate it 3.5 bags of popcorn on the matinee scale. Look, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon it's not. However, it's a fun tale with some Chinese mythology thrown in. Plus, you have Jackie Chan doing the Drunken Master and Jet Li as the "Silent Monk". What's not to like, and even in his 50s, Jackie Chan still fights with the best of them. No, it's not going to win any Oscars and the storyline is a bit simplistic but who cares, it's a go into the theater, turn off your inner critic and just enjoy a fun story.

This one will be on my DVD list this fall.

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Words for Today

2657 / 1000 words. 266% done!

Progress on Black Satin Nights

16 / 50 pages. 32%

Progress on Childhood's Tears

34422 / 90000 words. 38%

Words for 2008

123397 / 366000 words. 34%

After talking to the professor yesterday, I decided I'd take a quick stab at writing something non-genre. Something a bit more historical, featuring man's struggle with himself, others and being put into a position where decisions were limited and life-threatening.

And damned if it isn't starting to sound like a Bogey movie or three. I've set the story in Monaco in 1941, when it was under the control of Vichy France. wishweaver read through the first eight pages this evening and before she reached page three, she was already humming "As Time Goes By". Still, there are worse things to compare a novel against than Casablanca or a good Hemingway short story or even a good Hitchcock movie (although it did take place a few years after the war).

I did get on a bit of roll though, knocking out 3,162 words or the first ten pages. This one is going to be accounted for a tad differently, since I have to submit 50 pages, not X amount of words. I don't have a hard or fast schedule for this one outside of the fact I have to have it done by January, 2009. I expect it'll be a few thousand here, a few thousand there, although I do need to allow for editing time to polish it up.

What can I say? I'm a sucker for the classics.
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Words for Today

3162 / 1000 words. 316%

Progress on Black Satin Nights

10 / 50 pages. 20%

Words for 2008

111874 / 366000 words. 31%