Tuesday 7th September 2021
Today I published two videos, livestreamed for two and a half hours and still managed to write 5000 words across four projects.
And yes, I realise I can’t keep this up forever. But I only plan to do dailies of Write Productively until the end of this week and The Final Draft the week after. Then it’s down to a weekly cadence.
And after that… I’m going to play video games for an entire day without a single shred of doubt.
But I may have more time soon. The Accursed has been a big project, growing from the same idea that birthed The First Draft. It’s turned into this huge Epic Fantasy with multiple protagonists that despite having been planned out, feels like it might escape my control at any minute.
I planned for around 100,000 words, only for it to shoot past that to the point where I seriously wondered if I could bring in the first draft (as opposed to The First draft) under 220,000 words.
Yet, proving once again that I cannot predict the length of a book if my life depended on it, I suddenly found myself feeling like I’ve entered the final act.
When did that happen?
Suddenly I see the end of this book in sight. It might be another 20,000 words. It could be 40,000, but I feel the threads all being drawn together.
I’ll be glad to have it done as I already have an idea of what I’m working on next, and had hoped to start work on it in July.
However, if I learnt anything in the past few days, it’s that I can work on multiple fiction drafts at the same time. Or at least I think I can. I’ve yet to notice any problems with one merging into another.
It helps that the projects are vastly different but before going into this I thought I’d have more issue than I do.
I’m really loving my momentum right now and I don’t want it to end. It would be nice to have time to play Minecraft one evening instead of worrying about the next video, but that’ll come. I’ve been working towards this for so long that it’a relief to get things going.
And in many ways, whilst writing Chapter 1 of The First Draft on livestream was probably one of the scariest things I’ve ever done as a writer, I don’t think it turned out bad for what it is. Sure, I bet someone will go in and pick it apart, but I’ve been transparent that it’s a first draft. I’m all for properly edited books, it’s why I want a future in traditional publishing, but I do think that the average reader looks past a lot of mistakes.
If anything, this project is going to get me to write cleaner first drafts. I’m doing it by throwing myself in the fire, but despite it being early days, this project has gone better than I could have hoped. Engagement is some of the best in all my social media, better than when I livestreamed Warcraft or Minecraft.
I would like to play some Minecraft though. Apparently loads of things have been built on our SMP server, and I have a load of plans of things I want to build. I tell you: Once the video content’s initial daily content cadence switches to weekly, and I get The Accursed draft written… I’m taking a week off to play games…
…bar the two videos I’ll need to do!
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