First, does it count as a late night writing spree if it starts at 9:32 pm? That doesn’t feel like late night to me. However, this is likely to take a while, so I’m predicting a late night here.
I have a 500 word daily minimum to hit. I didn’t hit it yesterday or the day before and I don’t want to let that streak get out of hand.
My reasons for not writing that daily minimum of words is the usual. I just couldn’t get started yesterday at all.
I looked at my story before I wrote this, so I’ve gotten a head start, technically. In actuality, I deleted the last few paragraphs of chapter 9 and lost 97 words, starting me off in the hole. It doesn’t affect any of the opening of chapter 10, so that’s okay. I won’t be getting sucked into any revision because of that decision. In fact, I’m pretty sure that might be a sign that I needed to get rid of those paragraphs all along.
I seem to get stuck a lot and I’m not sure why or what that says about me or my writing process.
Now, it’s time to go write. I’ll be back with updates.
Update 8/25/18
And… that failed spectacularly. As soon as I settled down and stopped moving around much, I got sleepy. So sleepy that I finally just gave up, hibernated the computer, and went to bed.
So I accomplished almost nothing last night.
My ending word count on my book: 21,161.
Meaning I didn’t even write enough to cover the 97 words I deleted.