Day: March 7, 2015

Nope, challenge is a no-go

Lynn

I felt a ton of resistance to writing yesterday and today, and I blame it 100% on the challenge. I have a good thing going with the new routine of morning and evening writing and I’ve decided I’m not going to mess it up right now. I can get close enough to the date I’d like to finish this current book just by sticking with my minimum (doing both the morning and evening sessions) so that’s what I’m going to do. I just don’t want to risk ruining a good thing.

And honestly, I don’t mind failing if I’ve learned something, and I think I have. I’ve learned that I do my best writing when I don’t feel like it’s work I’m doing and that having my day free is one way to make myself feel like I’m not working. :D

So, this challenge/experiment is over, and here shortly I’m going to try to finish off the day with what I hope will be my first successful attempt at completing an evening session. :)

Bad habits developing

Lynn

I’m on pace for 1,090 wph right now. Sounds great, huh? It isn’t that great. That’s for 18 minutes of writing out of 2 hours and 10 minutes.

Because…

I’m not supposed to have WIFI access right now. I’m supposed to have it turned off while I’m doing my morning writing. I didn’t turn it off when I should have and now… well, now I’m updating posts, posting to my author site, and just generally using it to distract myself.

Since I’m trying to get my challenge off the ground today, I need to fully finish this morning’s writing session before I have to stop for some non-writing stuff that I can’t get out of doing today. If I’m behind after that’s done, I won’t catch up. There just won’t be enough time in the day without sacrificing sleep time and I can’t do that without risking tomorrow’s writing.

So, I’m going to have to take corrective action on these developing bad habits. WIFI must stay off during writing time.

And that’s my cue to post this and shut off my WIFI access until I get this morning’s writing finished. I have an hour and 52 minutes to go—unless I can hang onto that 1,090 wph pace. ;) That’d be a really nice start to today.

 

1,023 words yesterday

Lynn

I wrote 1,023 words yesterday (I think). This is another case of not remembering exactly but I’ll check later and correct this if I need to. I do know it was over 1,000 words. :) (I was wrong about it being 1,012 words, but I’ve corrected it now.)

I’m about to get settled in to try starting that challenge again today. I’m wishing myself good (and speedy) writing today! You can wish me luck too if you want! ;)