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lsgl - 50 more pages
by sven at 9:49 pm
In February I challenged myself to write 50 pages of story development in one week. Without too much pain, I met the goal.
It was such a valuable exercise, I decided to go through the process again. So, last week I wrote another 50 pages.
This brings me to a total of 118 pages of story development work so far this year. ...All for a sequence that should be less than 2 minutes long on screen!
For the exceptionally curious (hi gl.!), here's what I wrote:
- February 26 - 17 pages
- February 27 - 11.5 pages
- February 28 - 15 pages
- February 29 - 7 pages
My statistics this time around... I wrote: 50.5 pages -- 26,537 words -- in 18:20 hours, over the course of four days. My averages: 2.75 pages per hour, 527 words per page, 1448 words per hour. (A little slower than last time.)
The writing led to an exciting new way to tell my story. So, this week I've switched to doing visual brainstorming in a sketchbook.
...Which has led to the discouraging realization that I don't think I've truly got the story nailed yet. Back to writing again?
posted by sven | March 5, 2008 9:49 PM | comments (3) | categories: let sleeping gods lie
Comments
Fun stuff man! Cant wait to see what ya comeup with.
jriggityPosted by: justin rasch at March 6, 2008 3:29 AM
yow! i like where the final file ended up; it'll be a great visual style, and i personally like the flexibility of the "sourdough shoggoth" which can become one or many as needed.
did you copy/paste from word? the former curly quotes were quite distracting.
Posted by: gl. at March 8, 2008 10:24 PM
Oops... Yeah, I did copy-paste from Microsoft Word. Sorry about that.
Posted by: Sven at March 19, 2008 12:11 AM