It's not really the weekend any more, but I promised myself that I would start writing weekly updates about my writing status to keep myself motivated, so I had better get it done so I can go to sleep!
Work has been proceeding apace on the narrative for "Robotic Restitution." The manuscript easily exceeds 200,000 words at this point, making this project close to the point at which I might consider splitting it into a trilogy. I'll have to make that decision after I've done a first pass at editing to see if there's any scenes that I feel need to be added (there's one already that I'm waffling about including to strengthen the narrative, but I may cut it for being samey - I don't see any need to try to show the same type of bondage twice; that gets boring in my opinion - better to keep things fresh unless I truly have something unique to show).
I also need to pay extra attention to determine where the natural break points are. I feel it's more likely this will be a duology, but if the final draft is around 210,000 words, I 70,000 words per novel is probably sufficient to consider three books, since that would come in at around 300 pages in an actual book.
Where it currently stands it appears to me that I have approximately four scenes left to write before the story is wrapped up. This has changed significantly as I have approached the end, ballooning far larger than I had originally expected. However, for this experiment in novel writing I haven't allowed myself to skip any interesting bits, so I am determined to see this through to the end, no matter where it might take me. Not to mention that I keenly feel the need to tie up all the loose story plot points at the end, as I do not intend to write another story in this universe any time soon and thus I do not wish to leave anything unexplained.
As I naturally tend to write three days a week while I take public transit to work, at this rate of progress the first draft may be completed by the end of next week. Possibly sooner if I somehow convince myself to do some work outside of transit time, but that hasn't happened over the last year, so I don't think I should expect it to happen now. That's the point at which the real work begins, as I expect editing will likely take another month minimum. The only upside to that is that I will be free to start working on a project that will (eventually) be publicly releasable on MCStories/Literotica. I'm toying with the idea of taking a break from this story universe to finish another half baked tale I have in my backlog before returning to write the short story I want to use as advertisement for this larger project.
That's pretty much it for now - I'll leave you with a description of what it's like to write on public transit.
Writing smut on the bus isn't nearly as dangerous as you might think. Nobody cares what you're doing on your phone, and the majority of the time what you're writing isn't the actual smut, it's the interstitial story surrounding the areas that are smut. Even when you're writing the actual smut, at least for me, it doesn't feel that risque. I've never had anybody question what I'm writing on my phone - most of the time people just assume you're texting. You look just like everybody else staring that their phone.
I personally use Google Docs for writing, but many companies support writing documents on your phone so I'm sure you could find a substitute if you wanted to. I would also say a keyboard that allows you to swipe your thumb to type in words is incredibly useful to help you get certain words, though the autocorrect gets the wrong word more often than not. This is very annoying, but it's a price I'm willing to pay to get some writing done!
Thankfully, writing definitely helps to pass the time, much more so than browsing the Internet, and has the side effect of being immeasurably more production. Why not try it some time?
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