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Phew! I have words. I have many, many, many words. I'm sitting here, shining my writer's badge and wondering how my head will fit through the doorway. I am -- drum roll please -- 17,057 words into the final(ish) draft of Grim Glass Vein. I'm all shiny and happy, and...
...sorry couldn't resist. Anyhow, here's a teeny-tiny excerpt in which I mock dear, dead Jane Austen. May she crawl from her grave and throw a few witty lines at me along with her rotting fingers and toes.
Besides, except in old books about silly girls in ridiculous dresses, no one died from a soaking.
I swear my character made me do it. She has been reprimanded. I've been checking out my Flesch-Kincaid Grade level, trying to make sure I don't go over a twelve and found a 21.3 grade for one sentence. Does that mean only Harvard / Cambridge graduates can read it? Maybe that's why so often I make no sense at all - I write sentences for geniuses. Ignore me, I'm on an I wrote 14,000 words in a week high.
20 Comments on WIP Wednesday - In which I call Jane Austen a Zombie, last added: 2/18/2010
HAHAHA! Oh you mock Austen AND Marianne in one sentence. (Well, she doesn't die, but she comes SO TRAGICALLY NEAR.) I love them both, and I love mocking them both. THAT is progress!
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The Borges library isn't online yet, but I have an infinitely large team of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters, so it should be finished any day now.
2.5 x 3.5 inches Polychromo colored pencils on illustration board
Mmmm, Milk Duds. These are so addictive. Chocolate and caramel together is one of my favorite things. I love See's caramels too (follow the link, then check out the recipe for #46).
I only over indulge at Halloween time, so that's a good thing. But I really do it up right. I've worked my way through an entire bag of these little boxes in the past couple of weeks. Bad Paula, bad bad bad bad.
My Mom used to always get a box of these and a box of popcorn at the movies. Then she'd open the Milk Duds and pour them into the popcorn, so as she ate away in the dark she'd get a Milk Dud surprise every now and then. I used to think it was weird, but now I get it. Salty crunchy, chewy chocolately caramel, alternating...mmmm.
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Congrats on making it back. I knew you would find your way. (14K in a week! you rock!)
Yay for cruising along! Progress is always nice.
But. Um 21.3? I just checked mine and I'm awfully self-conscious about that score of 6 now...
I don't think you should be too hard on your MC. Sometimes they have bad days too...
AND it sounds like that line is a pretty good one.
Bity and Bitchy is a part of personality. It all works. :D
Great work! Nice post!
Hinny
Jamie, I'm no longer crying, 'words, words,' instead it's 'water, water'. Erm, makes sense in my head.
Cory, I should have added that grade was for one sentence and I'm hoping my book rounds out at a 9 or 10. :D
Thanks, Hinny. She was having a bad day.
HAHAHA! Oh you mock Austen AND Marianne in one sentence. (Well, she doesn't die, but she comes SO TRAGICALLY NEAR.) I love them both, and I love mocking them both. THAT is progress!
I felt as I love Jane so much, she'd forgive me.
Now I'm curious about my sentences! Do you download the program from this site?
http://flesh.sourceforge.net/
Natalie, I think you get an automatic 18+ rating. :D
Oh, and no. Mine is part of the Word package.
I'm not even sure what your talking about, but 14,000 words!! That's massive.
I managed 7,000 for the whole of January...and that was good for me.
Cheers
Rich
I downloaded the program and tested RELENTLESS SODOMY: The Musical!
It got a 5.82. I weep.
14,000 has to be some kind of record. I'm not word counting with the editing so much as going chapter by chapter. I panic less that way.
Your post title reminded me of that book Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. Bought it but haven't read it yet.
Congrats on the 14K! I actually wrote something the other day. No where near that much but at least something. Hoping to do more today.
Dang, did you even take time to sleep? And breathe? And Twitter? :) That's a fantastic wordcount, and congrats on finishing!!
Congratulations, but You're So Vein!
Sorry.
That's a nice, nice high to be on. And that sentence...made me smile Cheshire Cat style.
Natalie, well that's proof that the software doesn't work. :D
Rich, January hated me.
Danielle, it's probably because I'm redrafting and most of the hard work has already been done by previous-life me.
We both know, I twittered, Kate. And hey, you do way more than that all the time.
Andrea, I refuse to buy any of the Jane Austen mash-ups. Ooh, look at me all snobby.
Ha! David, thanks for making me grin on a grim morning.
Aaron, I hope you're more than a floating head this morning.
I already love this book, for that one line. Well done.
LOL. I love that line. :-D Keep writing. You rock, Cate. ;-)