In today’s Journal
▪ The WIP
▪ The daily diary
▪ Of Interest
▪ The numbers
Weird. As I close in on the end of the WIP (I don’t know what the end will be and it’s probably still some 20,000 words in the future) I seem to be writing it in spurts.
Again, every book writes differently, but this is a huge difference for me. It seems every time I sit down my fingers fly over the keyboard. Yet at the end of the day I have fewer words done than I expected.
It’s true that I’ve absented myself from it somewhat lately for various reasons.
But the cold hard truth is that even when I have the hours, I’m either not spending them in the chair or I’m doing something other than writing while I’m in the chair.
Maybe this is my psyche trying to make the challenge more challenging. I don’t know. But I need to snap out of it and write. (grin)
When I wrote that, a thought zinged through my mind: Easier said than done.
But it really isn’t. It really is easy. Just put your fingers on the keyboard, Harvey. Now read back over the last scene (or half-scene) and when you get to the white space again, Just Write the Next Sentence.
Reckon I’ll go do that now.
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Rolled out late again this morning, wrote for a couple of hours, then had a doc appointment in Benson (it was put off from last week). Go that done, hit the store while I was in town, checked the mail and back to the Hovel.
I wrote a few lines, realized I hadn’t bought something I’d meant to buy at the store earlier, so I went back to the store.
I’m stopping for the day. It’s a good, exciting place to stop, and maybe tomorrow I won’t display such aberrant behavior but will actually sit down and do my job.
Talk with you again tomorrow.
Of Interest
See “Tip of the Week #57” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/tip-of-the-week-57/.
See “First Page Critique: What Color Is Your Story?” at https://killzoneblog.com/2019/02/first-page-critiquewhat-color-is-your-story.html.
See “Avoid the Bubble Scene” at http://mbyerly.blogspot.com/2019/02/avoid-bubble-scene.html.
See “Free Fiction Monday: Name-calling” at https://kriswrites.com/2019/02/11/free-fiction-monday-name-calling-2/.
See “You Must Keep it on the Market…” at https://tonydwritespulp.com/2019/02/11/you-must-keep-it-on-the-market-until-it-has-sold/.
See “Release Day for the Mapleton Mystery Novellas” at https://terryodell.com/release-day-for-the-mapleton-mystery-novellas/.
Fiction Words: 2467
Nonfiction Words: 400 (Journal, email, guest post)
So total words for the day: 2867
Writing of Blackwell Ops 3: Marie Arceneaux (novel)
Day 1…… 1699 words. Total words to date…… 1699
Day 2…… 3766 words. Total words to date…… 5465
Day 3…… 4601 words. Total words to date…… 10066
Day 4…… 3535 words. Total words to date…… 13601
Day 5…… 3415 words. Total words to date…… 17016
Day 6…… 1845 words. Total words to date…… 18861
Day 7…… 3093 words. Total words to date…… 21954
Day 8…… 1528 words. Total words to date…… 23482
Day 9…… 2467 words. Total words to date…… 25949
Total fiction words for the month……… 29071
Total fiction words for the year………… 112474
Total nonfiction words for the month… 11900
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 37310
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 149784
Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date………………………… 2
Calendar Year 2019 Novellas to Date…………………… X
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date……… X
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 39
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 7
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………… 193
Short story collections…………………………………………………… 31