110,700 words

Been writing tonight for the first time in over a month! Wow!!!! I stopped when I was training to be a tour guide.

It feels good to be back, and I've written the introduction of Griff, a friend of Claire's.

He appears for just two scenes that are currently planned and the second one is very emotional.

Tonight, I've done the introduction to the first one, which is pretty dramatic - lots of shouting etc.

Oh another thing I plan to do - is cos the novel is set in York - i plan to use my tour guide knowledge to set the scenes and history and as a background to the walking scenes :-)

110,000 words

110,000 words and another milestone. That scene with Claire is as good as finished now. And it's really good cos it's one I've been wanting to write for a while to fit in.

There was a stage where I was thinking of forfeiting the female character because I had lots of plans to write for her but hadn't been able to write much. However recently that's been changing and I've been able to fit in some of the bits I've been trying to write for a while.

Spent the evening writing the novel

I've spent the evening writing the novel, and working on a further scene featuring Claire.

The structure of the book is really shaping up nicely.... There are kind of 9 inter-twining storylines now, around lots of monologues and other bits and pieces. The entire book has now been divided up into these 10 categories so I can work with it easier.

Afternoon Editing - Now All in YWriter5

ok so i've spent the whole afternoon working on the novel and now the whole of it is in Ywriter5, where I am able to manipulate the scenes, chapters and characters and plan it easier. I'll miss working with the massive Microsoft Word document which at its peak reached 312 pages in a Size 14 font. It became really hard to manipulate and plan though, and I was always preparing for this next stage. I also got an error I have never seen in Microsoft Word before - An error came up saying something could not be performed because the document had too many spelling and grammatical mistakes!!!

Evening of writing = hard work

Yesterday was fun, but it's been hard work tonight on the novel.... Still writing and determined to finish. I've spent the entire evening writing.... A few people have asked me if they can see the whole lot i've done so far... i'm gonna try make this available by the end of the year, even though I don't expect to be finished by then - as my target at the start is still my target now to finish - the end of 2013.

Full Afternoon Novel Session - Now in yWriter5

I've spent an entire afternoon working on the novel. Have made some great progress, and it's so much fun what I've been doing.... I've chosen to use yWriter5 as a software package to structure my book and plan it, as it was free to download.... It enables me to sort the book into chapters and scenes, map it out and keep track of which pieces and which characters fit where..... Currently I have uploaded and laid out 97,000 of the 109,000 words... This gives 71 scenes - which are currently divided up amongst 10 categories. It also gives me lots of amusing stats .. For instance: The most popular word is "the" which I have used 4051 times. I have used the word "jumper" 9 times. It actually tells you how many times you have used every single word!!

109,000 words

Although I'm out of employment, I'm writing about the world of employment ... The main character has a dull office job (not sure where I got that idea from)... haha i'm not just writing about it in a dull way though, that would be stupid. 109,000! yay!