50,000 words! If this were November, this would be very significant. As it is, it’s just another signpost, rather than a goalpost.
(A few weeks back, JT Glover posted about chapter themes. My chapters generally aren’t themed, but this, the sixteenth, clearly is. It’s about nudity, bodies, being naked emotionally and physically. Which is, I think, the only way my fourteen-year-old narrator, in fact any fourteen-year-old, can be naked; there are no exposed bodies at that age without emotions being likewise exposed.)
Other writing news of note: I finished a series of mutant turtle poems, which I started back in my last semester, so that I could submit them to this superhero poetry anthology. Even if the anthology doesn’t work out, writing poems–not just motes, but honest-to-gee-dash-dee poems–feels good. In celebration, here are the four best TMNT things I could find on youtube:
and this (click on it–it’s worth it). Good god, what is coming out of Donatello’s face?
(In other-other news, ten days till matrimony. Weird.)
Author: Phoebe
About Phoebe
Phoebe North is a 26-year-old writer originally from the fantastic (and possibly mythical) land of Central New Jersey. She currently lives in northern Virginia with her husband, her cat, a ukulele, and a comically large television. Though she doesn't put much stock in astrology, she, like most Capricorns, is stubborn, hard-working, and resourceful, and she dislikes ignominy and ridicule--though she suspects that most people dislike ignominy and ridicule, anyway.
Congrats! I made it to 40,000 today and just celebrated with a bottle of wine. Consequently it took me several tries just now to spell 'bottle.' 'Bodle?'
Hehe, congrats Claire! Productivity does that to my spelling, too. I vote "botel"–it sounds European.
Can't wait to see you in . . . geeze, like a week!!
Congratulations! 50,000 is a great progress mark, even if it isn't November.
Thanks for the chapter-theme shoutout. Maybe it's just one of those things that is supposed to happen naturally as you go, as a part of novel pacing. One of the things I often read about as regards writing advice for "experienced" writers, esp. novelists, is the issue of pacing and restraint. I've thought about that a lot, and how to try to use restraint when writing, but it's the sort of thing that I kind of think I'll be able to understand better with a few more novels under my belt. :-/ Not that I'm not trying to do the best I can right now, but it's like… Just experience over time, I guess.
Good luck keeping up the great progress!!
– J. T. Glover (whom Blogger suddenly doesn't like)