It’s now a quite comfortable 75 degrees outside. Makes a nice change from the last couple days, when it was more like 85. Or even 90. Not at all comfortable. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that I had an easier time writing this morning, after it cooled off last night, than I had the [...]
Well, my week of vacation is over. I had great plans for writing productively. Ha. I do have excuses, of course. Three days were spent camping on Orcas Island, and I never expected to get much done there. Then there was getting the Kid ready to get on a plane yesterday for her three-week trip. [...]
Many writer have rituals around where, when and how they do their writing. There is always the danger of becoming too attached to them, of course. If you have to sit in the blue chair with your coffee in the green mug in front of the poster of Hawaii (to remind you of what you [...]
I’ve had a good couple of days, both over 1000, though over the last couple weeks my wordcount has fluctuated from 300-800, with a few days off. Yes, 500 words a day is nothing to sneeze at. But I want to get this darn thing done. It’s been about a year since I started writing [...]
I wrote over 1400 words yesterday! On a weeknight! Okay, it helped that the Kid was gone. But the biggest thing was that I was writing a huge, emotional, tension-filled scene that just flowed. I could’ve kept going to 2000 if I hadn’t had to sleep. We’ll see if I can get myself going to [...]
On the one hand, I didn’t write anything on Sunday or Monday. On the other, I did get something written on Friday and Saturday. Which is actually saying something, since I was staying with a friend Friday through Sunday. Thursday I gave myself off, since it was my birthday. Sunday and Monday are mostly explained [...]
Two years ago I had all sorts of assumptions about what I was capable of doing with my writing. I could never write more than a book a year, if I could even do that much. I couldn’t stick to an every day schedule, or hit certain word count goals. I couldn’t write action sequences. [...]