Checking in on Day 29

[linaewen]

The month of May is almost over -- yes, already!  So, how are things looking for you today in your writing?  Are you going to meet your goals for the month?  Have you already met them -- or have you already despaired of meeting them and are waiting for June to come to make a fresh start?

Click "Reply" and let us know the good or the bad, or anything in between.  Share word counts if you have one, or something about your research or idea gathering.  If you haven't made the progress you had hoped to make as yet, feel free to complain about it here and find some encouragement in the process!

Do you ever feel like this is what you are doing in order to get your word count up?
 

Comments

[anyssia]

Yeah for words! Don't worry, I only wrote 500 words this week too ^^;; you're not alone in this! ;p

What's your experimental stylistic choice?

[vamirault]

Ah, it's kind of a mix of a few different elements that I'm playing with - there's no dialogue, it's written in very short, one paragraph segments, and the chronology is structured a little weirdly; there's basically two stories happening at once, one in the past and one in the present, and the present segments are moving chronologically forwards while the past segments are moving chronologically backwards and all the while it's alternating present, past, present, past, and in general it's just kind of weird and different and I didn't know if it would work. I'm still not really sure if it'll work because I know what's going on but I don't know if the reader will be able to pick up on it (although it shouldn't be too hard, because the content does follow a prompt very closely, even if the structure is odd). It's not looking to be too long of a piece, but it'll probably be a while before I can post it because I see revisions in my future.

[anyssia]

Wow, yeah, I bet it's hard to keep it together. I always have trouble following a fic in which two stories are happening at the same time, so with one going chronologically backward, it might get awkward really fast, good luck with that!! ^^