Fiction writer. Expert procrastinator. This is my life.
I’m struggling here. I’ve finished my 3rd session today and I’m dragging so much that my current average pace is 380 words an hour. I’ve finished only 951 words in 2.5 hours and if I want to hit my minimum 2,000 words in the next 2 x 50 minute sessions I’m going to have to pick up speed.
I have about 5 minutes of my break left to stretch my legs, so I’d better get to it.
Getting back to my sessions despite the fact that I’d rather take a nap. I am starting this year off the way I mean to go on—if not strong, then at least with my daily goal met.
I’ve completed the first 2 x 50 minute sessions I planned to complete today (on the schedule I revised in my last post) and now it’s lunch time. I had an unexpected visitor that interrupted my second session and there’s just not enough time left to complete the third one I wanted to do before lunch.
So, although I’m hoping for a second successful day for my experiment, I’m only 2/5 of the way there at this moment.
Once I break away from my writing, making it back becomes a real trial, so today I’m going to need to be on my guard for the kinds of distractions that usually grab hold of me and won’t let go.
Anyway, I wrote 584 words in 1.67 hours, which kind of sucks, but most of that suckage came from the mere 85 words I got in the first 50 minutes. I spent way too much time going back over what I’d written in the last few paragraphs yesterday and essentially rewrote the whole thing trying to get it right so I could move on.
So 85 words in the first 50 minutes and 499 in the second. Hopefully I can keep that momentum when I come back after lunch. :)
Boo. I started to write this morning and got distracted and created a production schedule for 2015. It’s no big deal, except for the fact that it completely threw off my morning writing and really, that was the main goal I had today, to get my writing started early and finished by lunch.
Crud.
Anyway, I’m resetting myself and I’m about to start my sessions and I still plan to get 3 in before lunch. :) Then I’ll finish the other 2 right after and move on to other stuff I need to do, like prep those paperbacks I keep putting off. At this point, I actually need to finish them ASAP.
I like my production schedule though and I added those books to my list of WIPs in my spreadsheet (series notation, no titles yet for the majority of them) in the order I want to finish them. :)
If I can maintain a 2,000 word a day average and don’t go long on most of my books, I’ll complete 18 books this year, most of them novels. :D
Here’s to a happy and productive writing year in 2015.