273 words written today. Hopefully there will be more tomorrow.
I'm keeping my head down, keeping my fingers going and staring at this page of words. I'm chipping away at it and figuring it out, though, it is slow going.
273 words written today. Hopefully there will be more tomorrow.
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My outline fell apart yesterday. Or, rather, I reached the end of it and it fell apart just before I reached the end.
I was expecting the end, as well as difficulties in the last outlined scene. So it all came down at the right time. Now, I'm focusing on what needs to happen in these two scenes. Unfortunately, it's a scene dealing with a new aspect of my magic system, so I'm doing a lot of research there regarding how to do this. I think I have come to a decision and, now, it's just the hardship of What exactly happens and How that happens. But it's coming along and I'm figuring it out. 153 words (of outline) this morning. I'm a planner. And I have to be careful when making something up on the fly because it can completely disrupt the plan. Like what I did this weekend.
I have now officially departed from my outline. I left it on Saturday afternoon, managed 602 words yesterday morning, but only wrote 220 words this morning. And I have only the barest hint of an idea of what is going on, and none at all if today's work makes sense with what I have for the scene already. I think this next week is going to be all about rewriting this one scene, reworking the outline for it and figuring out what happens in the next chapter. Wish me luck. I wrote more after my previous post, made last night before I went to bed. Getting up this morning, I've added another 1,051 words. That brings this scene to an end at a total of 1,883 words.
I've got a couple of big events on my plate today, so I won't have much time to dedicate to writing today. However, I'm charging my devices and packing them and their power cables to come with me. I'll have a spiral notebook, too. So, whatever thoughts and ideas I have today, I'll be able to write them down. This has been an awesome day! I'm pretty tired at the moment, so I'll simply let today's numbers speak for themselves:
Oh, and I've had some ideas about the next chapter I need to outline, which happens to be the one following the new chapter I started tonight. So the ideas are coming just in time! This has been an awesome day. I wish I could do it again tomorrow but that can't happen everyday. Still, I'll settle for taking notes and writing longer amounts whenever I can. Maybe I can do it again on Sunday... Climbing in bed last night, I was so excited to write this morning. Not write in terms of putting words on the page, but write in terms of seeing and visiting and chatting with my characters, getting to hang out with them and getting to know them better.
But I had none of that excitement when I woke up. It probably disappeared in that 4 AM hour when I couldn't sleep at all..... Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed my hour of writing this morning. I was simply looking forward to it last night and didn't have that same feeling when I awoke this morning. I did end up surfing the web quite a bit more today than yesterday and I've only wrote 388 words. Still, I'm disappointed to have to stop and go get ready for work. Steps add up. Did you know that? You take one step, then another and, suddenly, you have two steps. Take yet another and you have three. Keep going and they will just rack themselves up all on their own.
Words are the same. In short, I'm developing a writing habit again and it's beginning to show. 571 words this morning, a 51 word increase over yesterday's count. And I hardly got online to surf the web at all, which is something I do when I'm either having difficulty deciding how to write something or just flat out struggling to write anything. So, 5 minutes online and 571 words. I think I can call this morning's writing a success. Today is my mother's birthday, so there will be no more writing for the day. Tomorrow though, that will be even better than today. More technical problems. Can't log on with my password... blog posts won't post and then erase themselves... This is turning out to be as difficult as writing.
I didn't write last night. Instead, I reviewed changes that my writing partner made to a chapter in a book we're writing. It came out great and I sent my critique back to him right away. This morning I wrote 520 words on my own story, then added another 100 or so during a short lunch at work. I will be up again tomorrow morning to add some more words. :) I took a very late lunch today (don't worry, I ate earlier) and was able to get started on the next chapter in my book. All those ideas fluttering around in my head since this morning turned into 357 words this afternoon. Not quite my 500 words for the day yet, but they're a start.
Last night was just awful. The horrible day of trying to write, technical problems posting to this blog, not getting to read a book by someone else and, to top it all off, I spilled a full glass of water all over my carpet that took like 10 minutes to soak up.
So I haven't written yet today. I was going to get up at 5am and do so for an hour before work, but I didn't. However, one of the things I did do last night was to look over one of the scenes I have written a detailed outline for. Now, this morning, there are ideas fluttering around the back of my mind on how to convert that outlined scene into draft form. So I guess that's a plus. |
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