collaboration

[ljgeoff]

First draft is done! I can really see that this is just the skeleton. It needs more beauty, more heart, and a little more science. A market would be nice, too.

I think I started writing around Dec 3, 2008. And towersofgrey sent me "the end" last night. So that's about 55 days. Not too bad, with our schedules. Right now, it's around 10.2K -- I figure it'll gain another 1K-2K in the next draft.

I'm always curious about the writers who end up cutting stuff from their first drafts. Mine are almost always annoyingly cryptic -- the cliff notes of the story that it should be. As I said before, towersofgrey and I make a good team.

Question: Can you think of any other sf titles of "Count The Stars" ? It sounds familiar, but I'm not getting any hits of google.

Comments

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

Your process reminds me of something therealjae said once about hers. I'll only get it approximately right from memory, but essentially, she starts her stories as an outline. Then she goes over her outline and adds stuff. Then she goes over it again, and adds more stuff. And eventually, it's a story.

[rosey-jo.livejournal.com]

Hurray. I don't know how you do it and everything else you do, too. I'm glad you're enjoying the collaboration.