WIP Wednesday
24 Jun
Well it’s WIP Wednesday. What is this, you ask?
I have no idea, but the fabulous Catherine J. Gardner made it look like fun. Or, at least motivation. From what I understand, the idea is to hold yourself accountable to your blog for how much progress you’ve made on your current WIP(s) each week on the titular day. I already sort of do this at my little writing journal I keep, but since I hope this summer will be extremely lax in terms of what I get written (in other words, said writing journal will be littered with side projects and short fiction), it might not be a bad idea to keep track of it here. The whole group writing thing was fun in November, after all!
And so I say that progress on my WIP The Resurrectionists, a f@$ed up zombie love story (er, what other kind could there be?) from 1820s Philadelphia, stands about here:
4995 / 80000 words. 6% done!
Good god, how pathetic.
Weird things with this one:
1. Not writing it in order. Haven’t done that with anything in over a year, and finding it lovely.
2. I have lots more of it scripted, but that can’t count. Finished scenes only!
3. In the process of trying to construct this one, I’ve so far done a related novella and short story. These total over 27k that probably should’ve been in this book. See, no discipline.
I’m on vacation.
And now, a piece of one of the three scenes I have written. Oh, the joy. Two dudes and two prostitutes walk into a room…
Once they were safely bestowed out of sight of their female companions, Tommy let him go, leaned forward, and began undoing Paul’s neckcloth industriously. “Sweet heart, listen to me. She’s not sure you want her, and so she’s waiting for a sign. Kiss her, and she’ll do the rest. She’s worried she’ll lose her money, and it’s too late to find another customer-”
By this time his nimble fingers had made short work of the damned cravat. When he yanked it out and dropped it to the floor, Paul finally acquired the presence of mind to swat him away. “I say, Tommy, I don’t think I can-”
Tom swatted back and set his fingers to work on Paul’s waistcoat.
Paul felt very much like a little boy being undressed by his mother for a Sunday bath. He swatted half-heartedly once more, but knew it would be useless.
I’ve no idea why I felt compelled to use that bit, except that it pretty much says everything about these two idiots. But there it is.
Join us! Come on, it’ll be fun.
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Now playing: Franz Liszt – Reminiscences de “Don Juan” (after Mozart)
via FoxyTunes
800k? Impressive!
/lame
I’d post about my own WIP, but I’m sadly lacking in any.
Fun snippet! I admire your guts in tackling a historical – the amount of research involved scares the living daylights out of me.
It’s a good thing you caught that, or I never would’ve known. I expected it to be about 1% no matter what! All three scenes of it.
And yeah. As discussed, I didn’t have anything for way, way too long. It’s so nice to have it, finally.
Six percent! Nice! It’s always ever-so-satisfying to see that thing fill up…
Yeah, now I’m wondering if 80k wasn’t a bit modest… I can always say, well, it’s historical so I need a few extra…
Riiiiight.
Also, I love research. Love. So much. Wow.
Fun…now I can reveal my slack-a-tude to the rest of the world.
I like the idea of switching things up and not wriring it in order. I’ve wondered if I should try that with the book I’m always wanting to write.
Aaron, you and me both, my friend.
Jeremy, it definitely works for me sometimes. It’s a pain to knit things together emotional development wise sometimes, but a good beta reader can stomp those issues out right quick. And honestly, it’s fun to write as the scenes appear, movie-like, in my head.
I’d be interested to see if it suits you!
I love everything about that scene : )
Yeah, they’re a total (really, really wrong) bromance, but the subtext is not unintentional, I confess. Glad you can appreciate it! (I think that’s what you mean. Either way–) Thanks, you’re too kind!
I don’t think I’ve ever written a book out of order, I’m not certain I could. Fabulous scene.
“a f@$ed up zombie love story” – a world of awesome.
Thank you, Cate, I’m glad it amused! The zombies and the love start off at opposite ends of the story, but converge in a way that I hope actually works…
We’ll see. Either way, having fun writing it!