#word progress

Honestly so many things. Kudos, comments, and the thought that I may eventually be published. But the most accessible motivation I have right now is my Excel spreadsheet. I've tried the tracking apps and add-ons before, but I can't be as consistent as the apps want me to be, so I end up with large sections left blank. With my own spreadsheet, I can delete the void data from days I didn't write anything, leaving us with the line graph above.

I input all the information, and usually work out the blue line values by getting a word count for my entire document, and subtracting the value I last inputted. It's ridiculously simple and I would recommend it to everyone tbh. You can do it by one-shot word count (as I've done here), by single chapter, multi-chapter, series, or any combination really.

Unfortunately, my stats don't have time spent represented in the graphs yet. I'm tempted to include it with my next set of stats though, as I usually redraft and edit my fics a bit before I do anything with them. For example, the count in the middle of about 100 words actually took a good hour or so, but the count is lower because I spent it deleting and rephrasing stuff.

Part 9 ~ Endings clocks in at about 6.1k words.  Pretty short considering there are like, 4 endings.  Anyway this is where I ship this off to editor buddy to help drag my prose ass across the finish line. After I crash sleep for a bit of course.

Estimated Sprites: -(spoilers) lol

Minor Sprites: -(spoilers) lol

Part 8 - Rotted (title subject to change) clocks in at about 4.2k words.  Pretty short but the content of it doesn’t really suit LONG things.  I just have the endings left to write now! Not counting any major editing down the line. /lays down

Estimated Sprites: -(spoilers) -(spoilers) Glass

Minor Sprites: -N/A? -Some Vars on some BGs

After my toilet exploded with sewage and I had to have my room decontaminated for about a week, part 7 is done!

Trivia: Did you know I forgot what “outsider” meant when coming up with the chapter name?

Part 7 - Outsider clocks in at about 13k words.  I’m behind my personal deadline but I’m not going to lament that at 6am. I seriously cannot wait to hit the draft finishline and get to doing the delicious ART step!

Estimated Sprites: -Logarin

Minor Sprites: -Extra Guards -Detail of the “mysterious weapon”

After some real shit procrastination, Part 6 is done!

Part 6 - Unease clocks in at about 5.9k words.  I honestly kinda slapped it together since it’s a bit weaker on the prose side, but w/e, gotta hit deadlines!

Estimated Sprites: -Adult Liam -Adult Luscine -Garda, a male(!) NPC -Mystery Creature

Minor Sprites: -Horrible wound detail -Various Whiners -Altar flower

After a bizarreass hiatus of sorts, I’m back to writing the script!

Part 5 - The Ritual clocks in at about 8,600ish words (???012/18/16)

I also decided to overhaul some of the variables to be a bit more sensible.

Instead of the kind of confusing Fate, Heaven, Return, Passive it is now Mother, Mentor and Monster.  Passive is more of a failstate now. *I have not edited ANY of the tracking in the script yet.

Estimated sprites: -(Head) Priest -Priest A, B -Ritual Luscine

Minor sprites: -a fancy necklace -a map

Taking the time instead to plan and do some research. 

However, I offer a tiny, skeleton of a scene for a future project:

Two witches, both new to their craft, the first one’s in the kitchen with something bubbling away on the stove, but then darts away for a moment. The other walks in with a jar filled with some suspect liquid. The second goes to the stove, sniffs the air above the pot, unscrews the lid, and dumps the contents of her jar therein. 

The first witch comes back just in time to see the second witch screw the lid back on. 

“What’d you just put in there?” She said and goes over for an experimental stir, wrinkling her nose at the new squelch and odor.

“Hog’s blood,” the second replies. The first slams the spoon back into the pot with an indelicate splash of chunky red.