Annabelle Cloud

Tag: wip

  • Losing Her Voice

    Three weeks since my last update. At the end of that post, I mentioned that I was going to take two weeks off — I didn’t! It lasted a whole 2 days before I started an even more vigorous edit. One of the things that I noticed while reading the story, is that the narrators…

  • Seven Weeks

    It’s been almost seven weeks since I started the concerted effort to complete ‘The Many Dreams of Annabelle Cloud’. 47 days of which I actually wrote on 43 of them. The only days I didn’t write was those I was away from computer in Leeds. That is the best writing streak I have ever managed!…

  • The First Draft

    So this happened last night. The first draft of “The Many Dreams of Annabelle Cloud” is done. Twenty Six chapters. 83k words – anywhere between 35O to 450 pages depending on final layout. This has been over 13 years in the making. I wrote the opening of what would become this story March 2013 in…

  • 80k

    Tonight I hit 80k words – approx 290 paperback pages. I have one story chapter to wrap up – the one from this picture. And then some loose ends to tie up in my penultimate – tie it all together chapter. I’m estimating that it will take another 5k words – I definitely won’t get…

  • 70k

    So 70k words is now a thing. That’s ~270 paperback pages. I can definitely see the finish line for the first draft. I have 6 partially complete chapters at various stages and 3 intended chapters not yet started. Those 9 chapters will fit within the next 10k words – Only, they won’t. I suspect they…

  • 60k

    Another milestone on my wip. I hit 60k words tonight. That’s a really tidy additional 20k words over the last 2 weeks. So 3/4 of the way through to what I consider to be the target for first draft. My writing tool Scrivener has my Paperback output now at ~250 pages. I do think it’s…

  • 40k

    Major milestone with this work in progress. I know it’s taken me a long time of trying to find my way through this story, but I finally hit 40k words. That’s exactly half way to the target I set myself. Now I just need to keep the momentum going!