Fanatical Pupil

Fiction Words This Week: 1,608

I actually got to the point this week where I wish I was keeping track daily… but then I looked at my weekly tracking spreadsheet, and it’s starting to look decent, which makes me feel a lot better than when I looked at my pathetic daily tracking sheet.

I can’t believe I forgot to post about this when I actually did it. I gave a little bit of a Yattai! when I totalled it up. I topped 20,000 words in The Nine Mothers! Now it actually feels like I can make it! I am not sure about making to to 100K, but I’m pretty sure (judging by what’s happened in the first 20K) that there will be at least 75K before this story has been told.

As of this writing, I’m at 20,253 words total (I have a spreadsheet which does some simple addition since there are two threads to the story which I keep in separate OpenOffice documents).

Cory Doctorow has an article in Locus Magazine about getting paid. He’s what you could call a Forward Thinker.

John DeNardo declares that JJ Abrams is the new Overlord of SciFi Fans. Well, duh. I been had known that since Alias. I’m not sure about the putting down of Joss Whedon, but we’ll see when Dollhouse hits the digital streaming media player formerly known as a TV.

3rd… Val wanted me to post this:

As someone who grew up in the Pac-NW, I do find it interesting that storms from the Gulf Coast just make their way up the Midwest through Chicago.

Fiction Writing This Week: 2,260
Non-Fiction Writing This Week: A bunch

I believe that’s the first time (since I’ve been keeping track) that I’ve topped 2,000 words in a week! I was inspired! I’ve been writing some somewhat tough scenes, too, in that, I already know what happens before and after the scene, but I’m filling in what actually happens so that readers don’t have to make spectacular jumps of logic to follow the story. And in doing so, I am now only 517 words away from 20,000 in The Nine Mothers of White Home. With a goal of 90-100,000 that puts me at 20% done! That actually seems like a decent number.

Now, I don’t know who either of these people are or if they’re good judges of the quality of books, but they have posted advanced reading copy reviews of Anathem, and they’re both similar enough that I believe them.

• marcusgipps on LiveJournal
• Willy Ray’s Practice Pad

Marcus also posted this picture, which I had not seen before:

So far, it sounds like a book that could have used a little more editing, but then, the publisher has probably given Neal Stephenson some sort of de facto right to just say whatever he wants. I mean…

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Popular in these categories: (What’s this?)
#1 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction
#4 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary

It’s not every day that an author gets two vidoes on Amazon.com.

Also of note:

Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds

So, yeah, I’ll probably be waiting for the paperback version before I give myself the opportunity to read this one. Of course, I still have to finish The Confusion and The System of the World, and by the time I’m actually able to finish those, there will probably be a paperback of Anathem. Hooray for slow readers!