Yesterday's Word Count : 13898
I have recently fallen into a pattern that disturbs me. I get up and my brain doesn't seem to want get moving quite yet, so I do email as a warm up, and spend all morning polishing up some message or other, and either get to story writing way later than I want, or worse, not at all.
So my new plan is to blog before writing, using the blog to get my brain in gear rather than email. (Some people might be able to do it, but I somehow doubt I will ever have so much to say in a blog that it takes me all morning to write one entry).
So far this week I have written only 2032 words. This is Friday. To make my quota I need to either write 3K words today, or more believably 1.5K today, and the same again tomorrow. I have been hoping that I would get with it enough that I made my quota Mon-Friday leaving weekends open for critiquing. Sigh!
Trying to do 3000 words today I think would be a bad idea. So do I try for half that, or do I just aim for my daily quota, do crits tomorrow (I'm a dedicated reader for someone's novel, I need to get it done before I earn any credits for it, and if I don't have enough credits, Chymera won't make it to the end of the queue and get posted.) I think I'm going to just worry about today. My recent word counts haven't been such as to convince me that writing 1500 words today is even possible.
So I'm off to arrange for Serena's meeting with some scientists and to get Bambi in an argument with Algernon. Cheers!
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