And that was the day that was
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pbrayWriting: 5,250 words today. I rock!
Though yet another ship has gone to a watery grave after being boarded by Lady Ysobel.
Today's writing spree was partially inspired by thoughts on the Novel-in-90 challenge. Yesterday marked the one-third point, but I realized I'd only written 19,500 words for the month, versus the official monthly goal of 22,500. Not too bad, but I'd skipped more than a few writing days.
I'd managed to write every day until June 9th when I went to Connecticut for the diabetes ride weekend, and then went on a one day business trip. This threw me off my routine, and I didn't manage to write before I left later that week to spend four days in Florida.
I came back from Florida with a vicious cold/flu/sinus infection and missed a few more days writing. And with each day I missed it became easier to miss the next one.
Discipline in general fell apart, as during this same period I also stopped going to the gym. Fortunately I managed to drag myself out of the rut last week, and resumed both writing and going to the gym.
Today I wrote in the morning, grabbed lunch and had a bike ride, then managed another writing session after dinner. So I'm doing better, but I need to stay focused and keep on this horse. It's amazing how putting off writing for a single day can slide into two, and then three, and the next thing you know...
you've blown another deadline.
At least I have the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
novel_in_90 folks to keep me on track.
Though yet another ship has gone to a watery grave after being boarded by Lady Ysobel.
Today's writing spree was partially inspired by thoughts on the Novel-in-90 challenge. Yesterday marked the one-third point, but I realized I'd only written 19,500 words for the month, versus the official monthly goal of 22,500. Not too bad, but I'd skipped more than a few writing days.
I'd managed to write every day until June 9th when I went to Connecticut for the diabetes ride weekend, and then went on a one day business trip. This threw me off my routine, and I didn't manage to write before I left later that week to spend four days in Florida.
I came back from Florida with a vicious cold/flu/sinus infection and missed a few more days writing. And with each day I missed it became easier to miss the next one.
Discipline in general fell apart, as during this same period I also stopped going to the gym. Fortunately I managed to drag myself out of the rut last week, and resumed both writing and going to the gym.
Today I wrote in the morning, grabbed lunch and had a bike ride, then managed another writing session after dinner. So I'm doing better, but I need to stay focused and keep on this horse. It's amazing how putting off writing for a single day can slide into two, and then three, and the next thing you know...
you've blown another deadline.
At least I have the
novel_in_90 folks to keep me on track.
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Date: 2007-07-02 08:43 am (UTC)Indeed you do - and we sneak over here too, y'know, to keep an eye on yr private confessions.
5250? In a day? That's a week's worth, right there! You do indeed rock. You rock so hard, you probably unbalance the planet...
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Date: 2007-07-02 01:02 pm (UTC)5K is a very, very good day for me. I don't have these days often, but when I do, I treasure them.
It helped that I was writing two long action scenes--strangely it takes about the same time to write a scene regardless of length, so a long action sequence results in more words per hour than a shorter scene that's focused on internal conflict and revealing subtle characterizations.
Plus, of course, there was vomiting. And a shipwreck that resulted in my characters having to swim for their lives. Which appear to be two of the defining characteristics of this series....