Hey Folks,
Had a great walk this morning. Fourth day in a row. My wife agrees that we should walk every day that we can and then we’ll take a day “off” only when the weather won’t permit us to walk. But it doesn’t rain here much, so….
Then again, we aren’t going all that far yet either. Only a mile or so. Later we’ll have to leave a little earlier on days when she has to go to work, but we’ll figure that out.
There’s about a 1/4 mile dirt road from the highway to our house. I can’t stand it, so we drive to the PO in the center of our small town and walk along the highway from there.
So when we got back from our walk at around 7 I did nothing writerly until she left at around 8:30. I did finish another Lee Child Jack Reacher novel in the interim. The guy’s addictive.
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned as a writer from reading Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series, it’s that it’s all right to slow down. Take your time.
That doesn’t mean I have to write fewer words per hour or per day. But it does mean I don’t have to rush to get to the end of a book.
I’m putting that into practice in my current WIP, a novel tentatively titled Seduction. (I’m all but certain that won’t be the title when it’s finished.)
I AM actually writing fewer words per day at the moment, but I’m not worried about it. I don’t doubt that I’ll get back up to speed as I master this new “feeling,” for it is more of a feeling than a technique. And it’s a very good feeling.
See you soon.
Of Interest
If you haven’t read it yet, or even if you have, see “The Man With No Plot: how I watched Lee Child write a Jack Reacher novel” at https://theconversation.com/the-man-with-no-plot-how-i-watched-lee-child-write-a-jack-reacher-novel-51220.
See Sue Coletta’s “Writers, Have You Found Your Voice?” at https://www.suecoletta.com/writers-have-you-found-your-voice/.
See “Accountant embezzled $3.4M from famed literary agency” at http://www.thepassivevoice.com/accountant-embezzled-3-4m-from-famed-literary-agency/.
And see “As BookExpo and New York Rights Fair Open: Warnings for Publishers” at http://www.thepassivevoice.com/as-bookexpo-and-new-york-rights-fair-open-warnings-for-publishers/.
Fiction Words: 1673
Nonfiction Words: 370 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 2043
Writing of Seduction (tentative title, novel)
Day 1…… 1586 words. Total words to date…… 1586
Day 2…… 1673 words. Total words to date…… 3259
Total fiction words for the month……… 44116
Total fiction words for the year………… 205402
Total nonfiction words for the month… 13280
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 62750
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 267882
Calendar Year 2018 Novels to Date………………………… 4
Calenday Year 2018 Novellas to Date…………………… 1
Calendar Year 2018 Short Stories to Date……… 11
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 31
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 5
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 193