Tuesday, August 19, 2008

How Many Brain Cells? Let Me Count Them...

Yesterday's stats:

1. Received an email from an author friend telling me she'd taken the liberty to pitch me to her agent and her agent was interested so please send a partial.

2. Sent the partial along with a warm thank you to my friend. Having other authors believe in my work is an unbelievable gift.

3. Spent much of the day writing. Total word count: 6400

4. Yes. That's right. 6400 words in ONE DAY.

5. I think I have about 24 brain cells left.

6. Nope, make that 23.

11 comments:

  1. Freaky. I had a dream the other night where a published friend referred both you and Katy to their agent and you guys ended up getting contracts.

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  2. LMAO.

    I hope not, cause I also dreamed the same night that I was covered in grasshoppers. Blech.

    Though.. I have to say, as far as work stuff, I have dreamed about EVERY place I've worked at before I worked there. Sometimes years before. *grins* At least my subconcious mind is pulling for you guys lol

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  3. Talent will get you only so far in this business, baby, but talent combined with your gift for giving people warm fuzzy feelings about you = full of win.

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  4. 6400 words in one day? ....PLEASE!!

    YOU speak at least 500,000. Writing a small portion should be nothing for you " O' Queen of Loquaciousness "

    =)

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  5. Kerry- lol. May you be psychic too. :)

    Paul- Oh reeaally? Easy, huh? Hmm...well, I disagree with the 500,000 number (especially on a writing day where I barely speak to anyone at all)...I've heard it said that women speak about 10,000 words a day.

    That means I typed (in gorgeous, lithe, fast-moving prose) 65% of the words available to me that day.

    Men are said to speak about 3000 words a day. That means you should be able to type (in gorgeous, lithe, fast-moving prose) 1950 words today just to prove how easy it really is.

    Better get started. =D

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  6. Way to go, CJ! That's a lot of writing.

    Loved your post on the Olympian. Very inspiring.

    Have a good day! (You can write a few less words today!)

    Sue

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  7. My my! That is a lot of writing once I checked it out. Not that I didn't believe the amount to be impressive. It's just that I try to avoid working with numbers, so I had to "see" it visually with my own current piece. I bow to thee! {bow}

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  8. If I had an agent, I'd sure be telling him/her about Shadowing Fate. That story is amazing. And friends of CJ, you heard it here: it's gonna be her breakout novel.

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