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05-27-2008, 01:11 AM
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37,762 words!
It's coming along. It has a life of it's own!
I'm almost halfway done, and I think it will end up a good 80 to 90,000 words. I can't believe how fast it's going!
Good week! I wrote twenty five pages tonight alone.
Hope everyone's week is going well.
<3
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05-27-2008, 04:28 AM
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TWENTY FIVE PAGES!
That's immense! Well done, I can see it's coming along well.
Good luck for the rest of them,
Tom.
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05-27-2008, 03:15 PM
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Thanks! I just keep telling myself "Writers block isn't real. I don't believe in it" and when I have my bad days I just write, something, anything, to keep moving forward with the story, then go back on my good days and edit it better. I love this so much! I wish I hadn't waited ten years or so to get back into writing again.
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05-27-2008, 04:19 PM
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That would be twenty-five ordinary novel pages, yes? Not twenty-five A4. I always, for some reason, write the first draft in A4. I usually get around three to four-hundred pages (about 1000 to 1200 ordinary novel pages) done before condensing to about nine-hundred for the finished novel.
Sam.
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05-27-2008, 05:48 PM
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Would someone be so kind as to explain to me what A4 is?
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05-27-2008, 06:01 PM
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There are many different types of page size. Have you ever seen a large, lined notepad that college or high-school kids use? That's generally A4. The size measurements are as followed:
Width - 21cm
Height - 30 cm
Sam.
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05-27-2008, 06:37 PM
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Thanks.
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05-28-2008, 01:08 AM
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It was 25 pages in microsoft works, single, not double spaced. I realize when you submit things for publishing and to agents and all that its supposed to be double spaced and everything but I don't like doing that while I'm writing. Soo..I'm still a little confused about the a4 thing?
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05-28-2008, 04:54 AM
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If it's Microsoft Works, I'm going for a guess that it is A4.
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05-28-2008, 05:14 AM
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No, it wouldn't be. There's no possible way, short of writing for 12 hours straight, that you could write 25 A4 pages in one night.
Sam.
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05-28-2008, 05:46 AM
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Yes there is. I've done it before a few times. I usually pass out afterwards and have the best nights sleep ever, but it is doable.
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05-28-2008, 07:23 AM
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Page, believe me, I've tried, with the added stimulation of coffee, and the most A4 pages I've ever written in one sitting was fifteen. That was from 7 PM to 3 AM. It was one of those evenings were everything was flowing. And I type at a hundred words per minute.
Sam.
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05-28-2008, 07:41 AM
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You must be using a really small font. I type no where near that fast. But when I do go for that amount of writing in one sitting, it's usually on a day when I have nothing else to do so I start on the morning. It's tiring, but it's great fun if you're in the right mood ^.^
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05-28-2008, 08:09 AM
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Most people use a standard size 12 font. I use Trump Medieval at size 10, so yeah, you're right. Never thought about it that way.
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05-28-2008, 08:13 AM
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^.^ Next time you go on a writing binge, when you're done put it in Times New Roman size 12 just to see how much you've done by that standard. The length will probably surprise you.
I used to work in Verdana size 6.5 when I submitting to fanfiction. I got one hell of a shock when I put some of it in standard manuscript format. Sudenly 5 pages became 17.
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