#fastdrafting

[ai-news]

Transformer architectures have revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP), enabling significant language understanding and generation progress. Large Language Models (LLMs), which rely on these architectures, have achieved remarkable performan #AI #ML #Automation

[deandacosta]

FastDrafts from Briefly https://t.co/C8gByaEkpv

http://dlvr.it/T09Hwy

[carriejonesbooks]

TOTAL Writer NaNoWriMo Breakdown

TOTAL Writer NaNoWriMo Breakdown

It is I, the lovable monster Grover, and I have taken over the blog because … How do I say this? Carrie is not doing well. Oh no, she is not doing well at all.

She is doing NaNoWriMo again.

National Novel Writing Month is where writers try to draft out 50,000 words of a first draft of a novel in a month, which amounts to 1,667 words a day. Carrie’s very first published novel was…

[sailorbritters]

Day 11: #12daysofwriting Your project in 3 pictures. I decided again to stick with my series for this since I can’t reasonably break my short story collection into three pictures! The main points of The Alchemist’s Keeper are Twila, her coven, and her advancement to the crown. This is despite the murder of her parents, a political scandal, and a potential magical genocide. . . . . . . . #12daysofwritingchallenge #wip #workinprogress #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #amwritinghorror #amwritingfiction #fantasywriter #horrorwriter #darkfantasy #newadult #newadultfantasy #na #indiepublishing #indieauthor #amediting #fastdrafting #fantasy #magic #alchemy https://www.instagram.com/p/CJHsiBGHXvW/?igshid=1jqkb8y8quxin

[artbyeloquent]

Camp Nano April '22 Summary

... also kind of Week 9 of my Fastdrafting Project because I finished the weekly goal so quickly

Apr 1 | 531

Apr 2 | 1162

Apr 3 | 345

Apr 4 | 1113

Apr 5 | 202

Apr 6 | 1434

Apr 7 | 601

Apr 8 | 36

Apr 9 | 9

Apr 10 | 969

Apr 11 | 976

Apr 12 | 561

Apr 13 | 1092

Apr 14 | 328

Apr 15 | 1873

Apr 16 | 601

WEEK 9 SUMMARY

Apr 17 | 143

Apr 18 | 168

Apr 19 | 3879

16,023 / 16,000 for the month of April

4190 / 3500 for Week 9 of fastdrafting

Hill to Die On currently sits at 40,720 words (woo!! broke 40k!), a mixture of 30+ canon prose, 5k deleted prose, and 5k outlined prose/bulleted plot line. That means I have less than 10,000 words until I meet my fastdrafting goal of 50,000.

taglist (ask to be + / - ):

@ellierenae @drsnefarious @the-finch-address @bloodandmonsters @afoolandathief @weaver-of-fantasies-and-fables @avichaiish @v-ahavta @druidx @ashen-crest @pe-ersona @moononherwings @stories-by-rie @raisapathy @holyatlas @wildswrites

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

AuthorTuber Kate Cavanaugh defends the process of fast drafting. This is a method which I have begun to embrace (again), after years of procrastination. 

[atruebloodwrites]

. . . On this Writer Wednesday, I thought I’d share one of my biggest issues when I fast draft: telling verbs. It’s easy to put these in as placeholders as you work, but in my first round of revisions my immediate goal is to get rid of every telling verb I see. . For example... “ I heard the sounds of a violin in the next room.” When I see this I instantly want to change it so the reader is not pulled from the narrative. To avoid the “telling” verb, I can easily replace this sentence with “The sounds of a violin floated in from the next room.” You still achieve the same end goal, creating a scene where the reader hears the sound without actually telling them what your character is hearing. By making this simple change, you continue to keep the reader engaged while also giving visceral tone to the scene. . What are some of the quirks you find in your own writing when you work on a first draft? . . . #amwriting #yawriter #amwritingya #yahistorical #yawritingcommunity #writingtip #tellingverbs #fastdraft #firstrevision #yawritinglife #yawritersofinstagram #yawritersofig #yaauthor #yaauthorlife #yaauthorcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CJbZ_xKAlyg/?igshid=jwpmunhfvp80

[marybethlee]

Oh NaNo

Oh NaNo. I had such sweet hopes for our relationship this November. October had other ideas.

Here we are 8 days in to our NaNo fun and I’ve written zero NaNo words.

It’s okay though. October’s work is slowly moving toward conclusion.

Looking forward to you, NaNo.

👩‍💻

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[elisalromagnoli]

I’m not very far into this WIP so I can’t really say that there are many interesting lines (especially since I’m fast drafting) but this one I suppose brings a few questions to mind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #wipjoy #writingquotes #✍🏾 #fastdraft #firstdraft #tobeahero #novella #readersofinsta #storytellerscafe #wordgasm #storyexcerpt #writemore #writeon #writeyourownstory #diversefiction #igwriting #writersmovement #wattpadbook #wattpadwriter #creativeprocess

[lolatartara]

#contortion #contortionist #fastdraft #croquis #drawings (en Buenos Aires, Argentina)

[robynroste]

Tweeted

How to Write a Book Quickly — and Make it Exceptionally Good https://t.co/JmmUcc9PW1 via @LisaTener #amwriting #fastdrafting

— Robyn Roste (@RobynRoste) February 28, 2020

[artbyeloquent]

Fastdrafting HtDO: Week 3 Summary

Doing this a day early since I'm going to be visiting my sister!

Sunday 3/6 | 961 / 720 Monday 3/7 | 801 / 720 Tuesday 3/8 | 1125 / 720 Wednesday 3/9 | 781 / 720 Thursday 3/10 | 762 / 720 Total word count: 4430 / 3600 WIP grand total, including pre-FD: 15,742 !!

I split it up over 5 days instead of 4 since this week was my spring break and afforded me more unadulterated time each day! :D

One thing I'm particularly proud of is figuring out how the ending is going to go. Now I just need to fill in all the question marks in the middle, which come less from not knowing what happens and more about what order I want it to happen in!! But I'm definitely getting there, and I'm VERY proud of 15k.

HtDO taglist (ask to be + / - ):

@ellierenae @drsnefarious @the-finch-address @bloodandmonsters @afoolandathief @weaver-of-fantasies-and-fables @avichaiish @v-ahavta @druidx @ashen-crest @pe-ersona @moononherwings

[artbyeloquent]

Fastdrafting HtDO: Week 10 Summary

I am attempting to write every day until I reach my goal, just because I want to be done, hehe. Have not necessarily succeeded, but still met my goal.

Sunday 4/24 | 0 / 435

Monday 4/25 | 693 / 435

Tuesday 4/26 | 0 / 435

Wednesday 4/27 | 1728 / 435 (what is it with Wednesdays?)

Thursday 4/28 | 0 / 435

Friday 4/29 | 467 / 435

Saturday 4/30 | 0 / 435

Total word count: 3100 / 3045

WIP grand total, including pre-FD: 43,620 !!

taglist ( ask to be + / - )

@ellierenae @drsnefarious @the-finch-address @bloodandmonsters @afoolandathief @weaver-of-fantasies-and-fables @avichaiish @v-ahavta @druidx @ashen-crest @pe-ersona @moononherwings @stories-by-rie @raisapathy @holyatlas @wildswrites

excerpt below the cut (content warnings: death, brief trauma flashback, ghost attempting to distress animals)

Upon waking, the first sensation to sweep over Gereshom was cold. 

Everything was cold. A particular, foreign kind of cold that reminded him not of winter’s first frost but of numbness of the limbs. That spiking white-hot pain interspersed in a feeling of false death. It roared, at first, before settling into a subdued but ever-present ripple of discomfort. The space between his ears felt like a waterfall. Crashing, rushing; a continuous rhythm of overwhelm which took far longer to subside than the physical cold. 

When it did, Gereshom was standing in an open-air market. Gentlemen greeted each other with nods and half-hugs, fingers intertwined in a strong overhand shake. Mothers with babes upon their hips sorted through towering stacks of produce for the ripest and least bruised. They exchanged chatter with vendors about the upcoming harvests, the growth of their children and the studies of their husbands. Unattended youths scrambled across the flagstones, battling with fallen vines or branches they had fashioned into swords and whips.

His breath seized in his throat as one of the children ran through him. His figure scattered into thousands of particles only to surge back into position once the intrusion was gone. The cold feeling likewise flared, infecting even the surface of his teeth. As he stared at the marketplace, images of Gomorrah’s transposed on top of it. He flinched, clutching his head as he was sieged with the panic of that moment, the smell of sulfur and burning flesh. 

Then it was gone, as suddenly as it came. 

It took several laps around the winding streets of shops for Gereshom to fully acclimate to reality. Foreign names, foreign places dripped from the tongues of merchants and laypeople alike. Tradesfolk sold their wares using fancy new terms they bolstered with pride. He wondered, listening to their pitches, how he was able to understand them at all. It was a recitation of syllables he certainly hadn’t encountered before. Yet, as he dragged an incorporeal hand through the wall of a general store, he supposed language barriers were a little pointless after death. He was existing on a plane that, to his limited sense of being, felt layered on top of the physical world, intersecting but never truly the same. He tried, of course. He kicked at passerby’s feet and attempted to rattle signs. He had heard ghost stories in his youth and had no reason not to try. But aside from provoking the bristled ire of some alley cats, nothing worked. Neither the animate nor the inanimate could come in contact with him. The animals that did see him had no means to communicate with their masters what was displeasing them, so they were shooed or baby-talked until they gave up the empty corner which caused them such distress. Disappointing, really.

[artbyeloquent]

Fastdrafting HtDO: Week 6 Summary

So uh, sorry this is late 🥴 last week also sucked for writing and then I left for a couple days.

Sunday 3/27 | 933 / 875 Monday 3/28 | 877 / 875 Wednesday 3/30 | 531 / 875 Saturday 4/2 | 1162 / 875 Total word count: 3503 / 3500 WIP grand total, including pre-FD: 26,390 !!

A tiny paragraph I really liked:

A speaker crackled to life above their heads. The glass shifted opacity once more, this time so subtly Rimon almost missed it. When their gaze returned to Jake, their stomach jolted. Jake was staring back, teeth bared in a poor facsimile of a smile. It shared more in common with an animal’s threat display. Somewhere deep in Rimon’s core, long before it ever dawned upon them consciously, their base instinct came to a conclusion: They weren’t talking to Jake.

taglist (ask to be + / - ):@ellierenae @drsnefarious @the-finch-address @bloodandmonsters @afoolandathief @weaver-of-fantasies-and-fables @avichaiish @v-ahavta @druidx @ashen-crest @pe-ersona @moononherwings

[artbyeloquent]

Fastdrafting HtDO: Week 12 Summary

My original goal, with only ~3k words left to go, was to finish a week early (the final day is May 21). Unfortunately, a lot has happened--saying goodbye to friends, finding a subletter, taking my last exam of my undergrad, so this will be a very short post.

Goal not met, 318 / 3300 words.

Current word count: 47,021 / 50,000.

Words left: 2,799.

Thankfully, I have a couple days this week before my graduation on May 22, so I should still be able to finish within the 90 days.

taglist (ask to be + / - ):

@ellierenae @drsnefarious @the-finch-address @mr-writes @afoolandathief @weaver-of-fantasies-and-fables @avichaiish @v-ahavta @druidx @ashen-crest @pe-ersona @moononherwings @stories-by-rie @raisapathy @holyatlas @wildswrites