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 [...]
Sarah Weinman posted a link to an interesting article by an agent who discusses a publishing reporting tool called Bookscan. Publishers use Bookscan to tell them approximately how many copies of a book were sold. The problem is that it’s numbers aren’t accurate. According to the article publishers figure in a margin of error, that [...]
Argh. Not a good day so far. I got in 1188 words yesterday, though, which is great. But this morning I woke up so tired that I hit the snooze button longer than usual, got up late, then couldn’t face stringing words into sentences and caught up on Iran instead. I left my little USB [...]
1007 words on Monday, 1092 yesterday. So far the fifteen minute sprints are doing the trick! It’s been easier to get myself to sit down and write in the evening when I can say “Just fifteen minutes, it’s only fifteen minutes, you can do that much…” There have been a few posts on various blogs [...]
I hit my goal for over 3000 words over the weekend. I’m getting back into the rhythm. I finished a major section toward the end, and decided that was as far as I could go without re-writing the beginning. I can’t tie the threads together at the end if I don’t know what they are. [...]
Well, after my big 962-word day, Thursday was a total flop. I didn’t get anything else written after I had to re-type those 264 words in the morning. Yesterday wasn’t much better, 397 words, but I do have a little bit of an excuse. Devon Monk decided to host a writer/beta reader matchup on her [...]
Wrote 960 words yesterday! Yay me! I then wrote 230 words first thing this morning, and due to a software glitch, lost them. Grr. Thank goodness for automatic backups so I didn’t lose the whole chapter. I only had to remember and re-type the morning’s work. Which of course lost me the time to write [...]