Tff-eh! Tff-ah! that's what I have to say about todays effort. It dragged on and on and nothing felt like it was clear. I know WHAT I wanted to write, but articulating it. . . Let's just say my descriptive skills leave something to be desired. This scene was roughly 5 pages of description with only a couple of lines of dialogue. Can't be that hard! I thought, as I can see everything clearly in my mind. But NOOOOO! can't be easy can it.
Upside is I wrote nearly an extra 200 words on yesterday, being 1,239 words today and a total of 47,037 words. I didn't reach my 5000 as I'd wanted to, but maybe... just maybe, if I am lucky enough, everything will be easier tomorrow... and I will have so many words, that it won't matter that I failed today.
We'll just have to wait and see. Perhaps I am being too hard on myself. But when one has goals, and those goals are not met. . . It is irritating.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
First 45,000
So I sit here wondering idly what to do next. The first 45,000 words came out in less than a month, not pushing too hard. A few places I had to stop and do a little bit of research, but thats bound to happen every now and then. But progress has slowed. I have gone from a steady 2-3000 words a day, to 3000 words in the past 4 days. I feel lazy.
I haven't lost interest, and I haven't lost the plot, but everything is taking minutes to come out where before it took seconds. What happened? I feel like the pump has been cut and now all that comes out is dribbles. grrr! I say.
1049 words so far today, and I have been awake for 12 hours! I suppose for some people that would be acceptable, but I was accustomed to my pace, and now I must rant out my frustration. I had planned on having 50,000 words out by the 1st of Nov. Perhaps tomorrow? A staggering 5,000? It could happen I suppose. Perhaps I need to do more research.?Perhaps I need a break? Perhaps I like to say perhaps?
My cat is insisting that right now my lap is the best place to sit, and so is trying to push the laptop away. Amusing.... Perhaps I should pay attention to him.
EJ.
I haven't lost interest, and I haven't lost the plot, but everything is taking minutes to come out where before it took seconds. What happened? I feel like the pump has been cut and now all that comes out is dribbles. grrr! I say.
1049 words so far today, and I have been awake for 12 hours! I suppose for some people that would be acceptable, but I was accustomed to my pace, and now I must rant out my frustration. I had planned on having 50,000 words out by the 1st of Nov. Perhaps tomorrow? A staggering 5,000? It could happen I suppose. Perhaps I need to do more research.?Perhaps I need a break? Perhaps I like to say perhaps?
My cat is insisting that right now my lap is the best place to sit, and so is trying to push the laptop away. Amusing.... Perhaps I should pay attention to him.
EJ.
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