Day One: A Good Start
The good news is I hit my goal of 2,000 words for tonight, and even better, I had time left over to relax and watch some TV. That was the good news. The not-so-good news is in a few different forms. First of all, my writing program of choice decided to stop counting words after it reached 354; so while I was hammering away well beyond 1,000 it still read a paltry 354. I’ve sent a little message to tech support to see what they have to say, and I suspect this is a Leopard induced bug. The second issue is one I was afraid would happen and is the reason I am not sharing my story: the tone is all wrong.
If I am to hit 50,000 words this month (and really the story should probably top out at 40,000 words) then I’m going to need to just write. But since I want to write a weird fiction tale in the vein of Lovecraft I need to pay attention to mood, tone, and atmosphere. Already I’ve had to eschew those things for the sake of getting the skeleton of the story down “on paper”. This means, that as I suspected, I will need to edit the story (probably more than once) before I’m willing to let people read it, because the tone and atmosphere are really supposed to be important.
In the end, if starting a project is the hardest step then I’d say things started well. I was a little distracted trying to figure out the word count issue, and if the developers cannot fix it soon I’ll have to spend time and effort switching my writing software. Hopefully I can cope until a patch is made available. Two thousand down; forty-eight more to go!