I now have a deadline for getting this novel done.

[clocketpatch]

This must be shared with the other writers on the Flist: http://terrypratchett.co.uk/news%5Ctermsandconditions.html

Here's to December!

Comments

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

*is American* :-(

*cannot write an 80,000-word story anyway* (I've never even written a 4,000-word story!)

(Heck, the longest original fic I've ever written was, um, 1533 words. For a contest with a minimum requirement of 1500. lol!)

[clocketpatch]

I think the longest story I've ever written is... 60,000 words? It was realllly bad though. It involved dragons and castles and terrible abuses of the English language.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy just to have come up with enough plot to cover that many words, however thinly. My stories tend to come in 1500-word chunks, or fractions thereof - single scenes, almost all of them.

(Also I'm lazy. I think of more scenes, but they'd need research or lots of rewriting or something, so I only write the climactic scene and tuck everything else in as backstory.)

[clocketpatch]

You know, they say it's harder to write short than it is to write long right? And tucking enough detail into a single scene, so that the reader can imagine the rest of the scenes, even if they haven't been written, is a talent all on its own.