Month: August 2011

barely squeaking in before midnight!

I’d probably get more writing done if my writing sessions didn’t start with 30 minutes of noodling on the internet….

Would have liked a couple hundred more words today, but this is fine. Probably should try to catch up before I skip another day [or have another light day].

Two sessions. Still behind the count, but hit 20k at least.

Only afternoon session. Apparently I really needed sleep.

Probably will have to do session two by hand, won’t write up til after midnight, but just in case i get more done….

Mmm, theremin.

music: Godspeed you black emperor!

So Fridays apparently don’t work for me.

Or maybe it’s pep talks?

This week – for non-writing reasons – has not been good. It happens.

I was really excited about what i was going to write tonight – there was a great start, i really wanted to see where the story went. But I was drained. Tired. Just not up to it. I didn’t want to sit down at all, I wanted to curl up and read, or watch something stupid on netflix.

But writers write. That’s what you do. You write. There are no mental health days.

And sure, I may have not really written the scene – this should have been another 1k words, at least, but the last 250 was really just a bullet list of the sequence of events more than anything resembling story.

But I wrote.

ooh! plot twist! I love it when I just make up plot twists!

We get to the middle. Which to me is the muddle. So far, okay. We are moving.

edited to add: now only 1100 down. Was a bit over 2k down on Friday, so not bad.

Plot thing is really helping.

Now if I could just work on that pesky self-editing problem.

Read some stuff on story structure that has really helped me stage my scenes. Took a couple days to process though. Today was a lot easier to write-I suspect it will continue to pay off more and more.

I like the plot whisperer stuff but I find it too intricate for the first draft–I just want enough that leaves it open-ended, but gives me somewhere to go to find the next scene.