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| 7 pages written.<br>
update on estimated length of 1st chapter - 12-16 pages.
decided to write rough drafts at work by hand - in the office, in the subway and buses. 2 days of writing drafts, coming home and editting the hell out of them. Trying to follow my notes, i still include events that pop up in my head as i write. Fun is fun, but i still have to look up words in the dictionary and edit each sentence at least 1 time and constantly add new events and descriptions into previous pages, which i thought i was done with. Thinking about how to write the next sentence for 5 to 10 minutes is a regular occurance. avoiding unnecessary repetition of words proved to be more difficult than anticipated.<br>--[[User:Idiffer|Idiffer]] 15:12, 21 October 2010 (UTC)<br>
9 pages written.<br> 
I had devided the 1st chapter into 4 parts, depending on the location of the main character. the 9th page started the 3rd part, the most difficult one for me to write. at least i thought so before starting it. but it turned out to be the same as the previous 2 parts. I try not to write without music and at least 2 bottles of beer by my side. it helps me write. Pity i cant smoke in my room...Still editing the previous pages. I have a feeling that if my novel gets published (not that i'm even going to try that), i'd still find tons of things to edit. <br>--[[User:Idiffer|Idiffer]] 16:12, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
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11 pages written.<br>
almost finished the 3rd part. after that comes the most enjoyable last part to write, with the exception of one dialogue the details of which I don't know myself. I'll make it up once I get to it, probably...again during pages 10-11 I came up with an event right on the spot and spent almost one page describing it. there were also parts which I basically forced myself to write and i'm still disappointed in them(if they were boring to write, they're gonna be boring to read). i discovered that describing how a character got from one place to another is my weakest point. "he exited the park. he walked along the street, then turned left. he crossed the road". I find it really hard to make such a scene less boring than it is in real life. and don't worry, that was just an example. I use much more complicated sentences in my novel. One sentence was 4 lines long. yeah, i was surprised too... and its not like there is only one such sequence throughout the chapter. the main character is always going somwhere new and I have to repeat the same words over and over - go, come, exit, enter, approach, walk, pass. thats the limit of my vocabulary on this topic, sadly...<br>--[[User:Idiffer|Idiffer]] 18:36, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
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16 pages written.<br>
Transitioning from the third part to the final 4th one, 
these pages weren't easy to write,
 but not exactly hard at the same time. Wanting to get to the final scene faster,b
I found myself skipping some unimportant parts, like (again) characters getting from 
one place to another, completely. maybe its for the best. after all i'm no good at
that, as i have stated earlier + it is a little boring in general.Once again i found 
myself spending alot more paragraphs than i anticipated on some things.conclusion -
writing is unpredictable as fuck. Worth mentioning that i called in sick at work,
despite not being so. Just didnt feel like working. i spent one morning in a nearby 
Mc'Donalds writing for an hour or so, consuming coffee.Let me tell you, don't write
at Mc'Donalds!!! their music sucks, their chairs and tables suck and their coffee 
sucks too. and most importantly, it doesn't have beer. Although all that didn't 
stop me from writing 3 pages in my notebook...the final scene has an important dialogue. I'm very bad at dialogues. I mean, there were only 2 short dialogues so far. But then again, I dont remember many light novels having dialogues with more than 5 lines. the translators even use "" for each replica, while dialogue doesn't require that. Bakemonogatari is a good exception.<br>--[[User:Idiffer|Idiffer]] 13:53, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
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