I think the 1/4 mark is a good 1600 words later than I originally thought the 1/2 mark would be (so I guess I'm aiming for the 28–30K vicinity altogether), and I am moderately confident of what the 3/4 mark is and what the 90% mark is, but what is the 1/2 mark???
this fucker is 8.3K in. please note I am not counting the 1.5K I mentioned yesterday, or its 300-word follow-up or the 300-word bit from the other day, because those are all outliney.
10K+ in is a little too long to keep winging it and hope for the best!
...I mean I apparently have good instincts for pacing now? like. the fic I posted the 24th is 7.2K. if I chop the file into pieces at the 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 plot points, I get 1.6K, 1.7K, 2.5K, and 1.4K, and honestly I'm not sure of exactly where that third break should go, plot-wise? like I got those numbers from I split the scene at the point where the tension snaps, but if I move some words so that split is instead at the point where he figures out where she's going with this, the story ends up breaking into 1.6K, 1.7K, 2.1K, and 1.8K. not perfect pacing but pretty good, right?
...but I don't want to write fallout from the first fourth of the story for another 5K and then try to figure out what plot turning point happens then...
ETA: and then I wrote a different fic altogether. it is complete and posted at 3.3K and it is not at all what I wanted to write today! I wanted to work on the fic I said above!
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Date: 2019-06-26 09:17 pm (UTC)I think the 1/4 mark is a good 1600 words later than I originally thought the 1/2 mark would be (so I guess I'm aiming for the 28–30K vicinity altogether), and I am moderately confident of what the 3/4 mark is and what the 90% mark is, but what is the 1/2 mark???
this fucker is 8.3K in. please note I am not counting the 1.5K I mentioned yesterday, or its 300-word follow-up or the 300-word bit from the other day, because those are all outliney.
10K+ in is a little too long to keep winging it and hope for the best!
...I mean I apparently have good instincts for pacing now? like. the fic I posted the 24th is 7.2K. if I chop the file into pieces at the 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 plot points, I get 1.6K, 1.7K, 2.5K, and 1.4K, and honestly I'm not sure of exactly where that third break should go, plot-wise? like I got those numbers from I split the scene at the point where the tension snaps, but if I move some words so that split is instead at the point where he figures out where she's going with this, the story ends up breaking into 1.6K, 1.7K, 2.1K, and 1.8K. not perfect pacing but pretty good, right?
...but I don't want to write fallout from the first fourth of the story for another 5K and then try to figure out what plot turning point happens then...
ETA: and then I wrote a different fic altogether. it is complete and posted at 3.3K and it is not at all what I wanted to write today! I wanted to work on the fic I said above!