Faster writing, possibly more motivated writing (could be wrong, could be that I just finally got myself started again), definitely more typos, and definitely not as enamored of my own stuff as I should be when I re-read.
However, I was having an issue with that last item even before I started the 5 minute sessions, so maybe that’s not a result of the 5 minute sessions at all.
The mistakes? Definitely, absolutely, a result of the 5 minute sessions. I’m not taking time between each of them to tidy up when I’ve just written, which is exactly what I started out doing and should have kept doing but didn’t.
I just don’t know if I’m going to be able to work like this for an entire book. Part of me wants to keep it up, and part of me wants to go back to trying 1 hour blocks of a more leisurely nature so I can make sure what I’m writing satisfies me.
So, as mentioned, I have a dilemma, and I can’t decide what to do.
I said recently that I was going to try to make faster decisions, so … time to decide.
Before I set aside the 5 minute sessions, I should make a real effort to take the time between sessions to go over what I just wrote and correct any mistakes. Or, better yet, I should do it in the first few minutes of the my next hour long block I have planned, right before I start writing again as long as I can keep it short so it doesn’t take more than 5 to 10 minutes. Can I go over 800ish words in 5 to 10 minutes? Surely I can do that.
Alright then, that’s settled. Time to get to work. I’m starting about an hour and a half later than I’d planned to start today.
Later…
So that didn’t work. At all. I’ll have to rethink this. I spent nearly my entire first hour on the read through and fixes. I don’t know if I’m just in a really critical frame of mind or if every book I’ve written since January just really, really sucks.
I’m leaning toward the former, but maybe I should revisit one of my previous works just to see…
Truthfully, that isn’t likely to help and I’d like to stop needed that kind of reassurance from myself! :o
Anyway, gotta get to work or I’m going to end up with another day where I do the bare minimum, and I don’t want that.