Dreams and movies

[guanin]

I got a slashy dream last night. That hasn't happened for years. The gay movie marathons I've been having lately are definitely responsible for that. Note: By marathon, I mean that I've been watching entire movies in one sitting. I haven't done that since who knows when. A year, maybe. I don't know if anyone here has Netflix, but their Instant movie feature is one of the most awesome things ever. No need to watch for a DVD to come in the mail, no need to rail at the player when the scratched DVD gets stuck and won't function like happened just ten minutes ago. Just instant goodness. I sound like the ad. By the way, His Secret Life *there's a threesome in this one, by the way) and Walk on Water are excellent. The downside to all this is that now I have a new plotbunny running around my head, courtesy of the dream, that I don't know what to do with. Thank you, brain.

For some strange reason, a scale has appeared in the bathroom in a very prominent location that forces me to see if every time I go in, so now I can't do my business without feeling guilty about not exercising. *face palm* We may need to have a conversation about this. This is really not good for anyone's self esteem.

Does anyone know how many words is a 300 page novel, give or take? I keep being asked how many pages I have written of my novel and I notice that I don't count pages. Essay pages are the only pages I've ever counted, which got confusing in London, because over there it's words they count, so no matter what system I use someone is going to stare at me in confusion. It's like Fahrenheit vs. Celsius. I've got at least 106 pages by now. It feels like much less, probably because I'm still just getting started. It's a lot of story! There's a tiny sliver of a novel sitting on the shelf, barely 156 pages and I stare at it wondering how do you write a novel that tiny? If I were to write a short story, that would probably be the size of it.

I'm thinking, if I keep at my pace of 3,000 words a day, give or take, I can get 90,000 more within a month. Why am I suspecting that even if I do that, I will not be done with this novel by then?

Comments

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Aw, just write the bunny down somewhere for later. That's what I always do.

I watched a gay movie today too. It was a horror film, with vampires, called Dead Serious. It was pretty bad, but it had potential, if they'd had a budget of more than $50 that they didn't spend entirely on fake blood and if they had bothered to put just a touch more focus on the interesting couple instead of the very dull (and het, go figure) couple. Though I must admit the guy in the boring het couple had some genuinely funny lines.

I'm not sure about the page number/word count thing, but I do know 50,000 words is roughly 175 pages. Boy, I hated having word limits instead of page limits in England. How can you get away with having your last page be three lines long? Very frustrating.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

It's sticking to my brain like glue, so I'll be remembering it for a while.

That does sound pretty bad, but hey, funny lines. The ones I've been watching have been more the serious type that make you think, so I'll probably be watching something lighter tomorrow.

Huh. 50,000 is what I have right now. Wow. I actually prefer word limits. That way I don't have to worry about the font since I prefer to avoid Times New Roman. And there were those times when I...um... may have tweaked the official word count somewhat. Hey, they took points of for being over the word count and there was nothing I could cut without it being a disaster. And if no one's counting pages, who's to know?

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Mmm, slashy dreams, I miss having those. It's been a while. But I agree with you, the instant movie watching feature of Netflix is fantastic. One of these days I'll get around to taking advantage of it again. And may I just say wowza to the guy on the poster for Walk on Water? An Israeli Clive Owen indeed. So lovely looking.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I've only had like three in my life with I do not understand. Maybe the key was the movies. I must gorge myself on gay movies to bring them out. You know, I hadn't noticed, but he does look an awful lot like Clive Owen. It's uncanny. He's got a nice ass, too. There's a moment in the movie when you see everything.

[saena17.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a coincidence. I was just thinking about "Walk on Water" two days ago! That's a fantastic movie. I had been thinking about adding it to my Netflix queue, but then I remembered that I think we have it at home, so I can just wait and watch the DVD over Thanksgiving. I already have over 60 movies on my queue. :P

As for the page/word count dilemma, I rarely count words unless I have to for a challenge entry or something. But when I did heroes_bigboom I wrote a 10,000 word fic that came out to about 23 pages. So maybe do the math from there?

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I already want to see it again, but I also want to get through some of my queue first before doing so. There are so many movies that need watching! It's insane.

Mm. I've got a chunk of 10,000 at 27 pages. The tricky thing about counting pages is that they vary according to how spaced out the words are. I've had 3 pages of tight narrative with the same word count of 6 pages of dialogue, which is why I prefer word counts. I'm just wondering how thick this thing would be in a book format.