Category: Writing

This is… actually happening. I have a story! I have a story!

True, I’m realizing the order and pacing is a mess but hey! it’s a rough rough draft anyway.

I have a story! I have a story!!

Last night was another short night — Ruth’s birthday.

I’m not sure if I”m really 40% through my story but we shall see!

It’s the bad part of NaNo–or so they say.

Personally I have not yet noticed much in the way of additional misery. It’s the same amount of awful as it was before.

I find that the first four hundred words are the worst; then 500-1200 go by very very fast; then 12-1800 normalize.

The ninth was my sister’s birthday so I was distracted.

Day Nine: 542 words;
Day Ten: 1739 (which surprised me).

And this was supposed to be a bad day. I even left myself on a cliffhanger, because I knew i couldn’t write the next scene as well today.

Yesterday was far more of a drag.

14518 words–30% complete sounds… kinda awesome.

Tonight ended up going easier than I had expected, but earlier was a total wash. I get the impression it’s easier for me to write at night, and to edit in the morning. Interesting.

Now I’m going to read and go to bed. What on earth did I do with my Chandler, anyway?

Read this week that it’ll be 70 years since Fitzgerald’s death in December. For some reasons I find this very depressing.

squeaked in tonight. I’d like to have another 3k day tomorrow because next week looks to be really busy, AND it’s week two, the week of drudgery.

Already now I can feel the week two doubts coming in: my characters are inconsistent, my dialogue leaden….

but somehow i’m feeling excited about the story.

Took a couple hours to get this far, but then again, I wasn’t doing sprints.

More sprints:
– Character Study: Tomy;
– Scene Study: Umut’s on Radio Row.

I think it’s about time to do these. Hoping I get a couple of new things to explore in the next few days of writing the main story–they really help expand things and increase my word count. Also, I worry less about them.

I think in the future I may just start doing them within the body text of the story. Not sure–one of the reasons they may be easier to create is that I’m not doing them as part of the main narrative, but as tangential.

Last sprint of the day. Working through my questions about the man in the glen plaid suit.

Sprint two, about the office, done.

I’m not sure if I need 20 minutes on item 3; and I’m not sure if I’m enough into the store for four and five.

May do ten minutes on the police station and save the other two for later on in the weekend.

Right now I’m over my daily word count without even touching the narrative part–and I definitely want to spend an hour at least on that.