Rabbit Hole II - round-up

The Queensland Writers Center Rabbit Hole II event has finished once more and despite the pain in my fingers and a numb bum, I made excellent progress on my novel. I am still trying to sort out the statistics and assorted data. I made the 30,000 word target for the 22 hour event. My brain is a little fried.

On the first day, the event ran from 6-8pm and I was able to progress through 2468 words on chapter 6 of Battle of Korunai. This was specifically the early section of the chapter when the admiral has lost his prey - it was a little dry to write.

On the second day, the event ran from 10am to 8pm. I worked primarily on chapter 6 and 7 of Battle of Korunai. I also completed part 6 of the Air, Steel & Soul story post. I only have one or two more story posts before I am up to where we are in game time, but I am catching up. The daily count for this day was 10286, taking the total to 12754.

The third day was also from 10am to 8pm and I was extremely daunted to think I needed about 18000 words to cap it. This, being more than my entire previous count was, I thought, beyond me. But, I knuckled down and pressed really hard on the pen and generated 18500 (and a nice round number) on chapters 6, 7, and 8 of Battle of Korunai and a handful of short story starts, including 'The Fylonshmap Thruster' which is previewed at Rabbit Hole Online Tumblr.

Everyone was helpful and positive. I found the comradery in getting into the writing spirit was excellent, and the wonderful incentives were amazing. LOLCats at 1000 words, various writing challenges for Dymock's book vouchers, 500-word excerpt at Tumblr at 20,000 words, and a selection of e-books at 30,000 words...

I also got to know a bunch of talented writers with lots of different knowledge, skills, interests, and projects. I look forward to seeing how they progress as well.

I now have about 30,000 words on my novel I did not have before coming into the Rabbit Hole.

Additionally, I did some checking. Although the early chapters of Battle of Korunai were written much earlier than Rabbit Hole, these were discarded once the characters and story shaped up properly. Of the formal chapters that have made it to version 2.0... about half were written at Rabbit Hole events.

I'll be back again for the Rabbit Hole III in November. Who's with me?