Pagecount woes and rewarding myself

According to Scrivener, I reached 40 pages yesterday night, which should mean I have eight days left to write 60 pages. That's a lot, sure, but it's doable. There is of course, a BUT here. Quite a massive one. It seems Scrivener and Adobe Reader disagree on what a page is. So while Scrivener tells me I have 40 pages, OpenOffice says I have 41, and Adobe Reader has decided, arbitrarily, that I only have 36!

Gasp. Disbelief. Annoyance. Determination. At least I know now that I need to write an extra page to every ten pages, as 11 Scrivener pages roughly equal 10 pages once compiled as PDF. I would have been terrified if I had realised the discrepancy on the last day, thinking that I was almost there and then suddenly finding myself with ten extra pages to write.

So, off to write 70 pages in 8 days. WHIMPER. WHINE.

On the bright side, I have decided on a set of rewards. Mainly, they include:
- Easter chocolate!
- Cooking shows on iPlayer!
- New series of Doctor Who tonight!

I have decided to take another Holly Lisle course. I will elaborate on this in a further post, as I really should be writing my script now.

Script Frenzy motivation lag...

It turns out it's harder to keep up with a month-long project like Nano or Script Frenzy when every single person you now isn't involved too. Nano peer pressure is something quite real to me, as most of my friends, all of my flatmates, and my significant other are all doing it too. Script Frenzy is an entirely different matter. Most of the friends we managed to convince to give Screnzy a try last year have chosen not to renew the experience, and I'm now the only Script Frenzy ML for London.

My being ML is probably most of why I haven't given up, although it's not as good or enjoyable a motivation as having house write-ins. I now have to write 6 pages a day to finish in time, although with the massive headache I have right now, I doubt I'll be apt to doing that tonight.

This post is probably not worded as nicely or coherently as my usual. That would be because I'm writing from the Southbank Centre (Million Monkeys!), where very loud and unpleasant would-be-smart music is playing. The fact that some sort of obnoxious fashion show is playing has obviously become my newest procrastination alibi. Back to writing now! I have to add to these measly 21 pages.

Sherman & Lloyd Investigations

It's Day Seven of Script Frenzy, and to no one's great surprise, I'm behind on my page-count. I'm starting to wonder if this might not be just how I roll. I know where I want my story to go and what I want it to do and I feel very good about it. Maybe this is just my week one enthusiasm talking, but I'm still basking in the quiet, hopeful confidence of one who likes what she's writing. Compared with last years' opening pages, these have been easy enough to write and flow well enough.

I don't often feel that my first drafts are even decent, but this one has got good stuff going for it - namely three great main characters, several cool sidekicks, and some exciting (if mildly unrealistic) conflict. It's now tentatively titled Sherman & Lloyd Investigations, after the detective agency the main characters set up in the pilot. I don't love it as a title, but it'll do for now. I figure I should have a tagline, so here's my first draft for one. Judge it by first draft standards, pretty, please:

Acerbic linguistic professor Sadie, computer genius Stuart and PI's cynical secretary Charlie team up to fight crime.