Yes, I promised I'd put up the first chapter last week - what can I say, life and writing got in the way. Also, I forgot how freakin' long it takes to format something in a Livejournal post. Really, it's a bother - but I want it to be readable, so I'm taking my time.

Something else I'm going to be taking my time with: starting in December, I'm cutting my daily word count goal down to 750. I'm doing this because I've been finding that every night as I approach 750 words or thereabouts, the quality of my prose plummets. I make my word count of 1000 words, but only because I'm writing paragraphs along the lines of:

"blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah beer beer beer blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah omg heroes is on must hurry up blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah is it time for bed yet blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah gah bleh blah"

And then the next night I have to erase or rewrite that last chunk of "prose", which is an enormous waste of time, as well as rather demoralizing. My day is very long, so I don't have a lot of time to write to begin with - it makes no sense to spend most of it working over crap I wrote only to hit a made-up word count. So, back to the smaller word count. Quality over quantity, right?

Labels: "the ruins of love"