Small steps … are for weenies. :) Now, to keep from being a weenie, I have to get on the ball today and make up some word count!
Yesterday’s fun little exercise in posting my word count progress as the day went on turned out really well. I stayed more focused than I’ve been able to stay all week and I really had fun doing it. So … I’m going to do it again today.
Between 8 and 9 I wrote the entire time, except for 10 minutes at the end when I took a short break. Today’s looking to be better than yesterday and I’m finding it a lot easier to concentrate for some reason. Although I am freezing right now and have stiff fingers to show for it.
Between 9 and 10ish a friend called so I only wrote for a little bit, not sure how long.
Whoa! What happened to 10ish to 1?
Between 1 and 2 I’m not really sure. I feel like I wrote the whole time but that’s some terrible progress there. I seem to be stuck in a chapter and just keep cycling back through it. Not sure why.
Between 2 and 9 I didn’t write much of anything. Too much living going on. I’m very sleepy and now I’m calling it a night.
Sigh. I really expected to do better today. Tomorrow I have a block in the morning and in the evening when I can get back to it; hopefully I’ll do better!
My starting count on day 7 of NaNoWriMo. Things can only improve from here, right?
Today I’m going to mark my word counts as the day goes by. I don’t have a specific schedule but it’s going to be a full day of writing so I’ll try to remember to drop in every hour or so and add my wordcount. Let’s see if this helps me stay focused. Oh and you’ll get to see just how slowly I write.
(*Oops, revised my starting time because somehow it went from 7:34 to 8:31 in the blink of an eye. I’m settled now. Time to focus.)
Between 8:30 and 9 I don’t even know what happened.
Between 9 and 10 I probably didn’t get but 15-20 minutes of writing time because of … stuff I can’t even remember at the moment. Focus is clearly a problem for me.
Between 10 and 11 I actually spent more time writing, in between staring at the sunshine coming in my dining room windows (after a quick change of location, hoping I’d be able to settle in—nada).
Between 11 and 12 I finally started to make some progress. I’ve been fighting a two-chapter span where I really didn’t know where things were going and had ended up going back over it a couple of times just to try to get some forward momentum. Seems like I might be getting there! :) Very happy at the moment. My knee won’t stop jiggling.
Between 12 and 1 I didn’t write. I went out and got some sunshine since it was so beautiful outside and then … I tried to rest on the couch. I didn’t actually nap. I rarely do although I’m trying to get better at it.
Between 1 and 2 I wrote pretty much the whole time. Although I did sneak in a piece of pecan pie. :)
Between 2 and 3 I checked my email. I had one message that I didn’t outright delete, and it contained a link and then … at 2:55 I realized what time it was and freaked out, because that was supposed to take like 5 minutes. So, no more email today until I am done writing! No exceptions! ! ! <– extra emphasis necessary before my brain will take me seriously, thank you very much.
Between 3 and 6 I didn’t write at all. Life went on. I also checked email. Gah. I forgot all about the no exception rule! Now back to writing.
Between 6 and 7 I wrote for about 30 minutes. I had to call my mom. I told her to hang up on me if I talked more than 5 minutes, but alas, she didn’t, and I kept talking for another 15. Sigh. Another thing that is clearly a problem for me.
Between 7 and 8 I wrote for about 15 minutes. I got distracted by an email I swore I wasn’t going to check and ended up writing a forum post and reply that I swear is longer than the words I’ve managed on my book today. Why did I do that? Seriously. Why?
And then life interrupted again, and I decided to give it up for the night.
Oh, my, oh, my, oh, my. I’m in trouble here. I’m at 1,315 on DAY 6 of NaNo. I know I can catch up if I can get on a roll, but I’ve been saying that for days. Time to put up or shut up.
My current playlist is made up of Let Her Go by Passenger.
You got it. That song, on repeat. I’ve listened to it enough that you’d think I’d know it by heart, and yet … there is a reason I will never be a musician. I can’t ever remember lyrics! Ever! I get them wrong no matter how many times I hear a song.
I listened to Stubborn Love (The Lumineers) for 10 hours straight one day and … yeah, I can’t remember the words even when it’s playing and I’m trying to sing along. But I was getting close to the end of a book and keeping the same song going helps me focus. :)
Maybe it’ll work for NaNo. Time to get back to writing. If you haven’t noticed, my posting here is usually a sign I’m avoid writing. :)
Holy crap, it’s day 5 of NaNoWriMo 2013. I am not doing well. Especially for someone who swore to herself that this was a winning year! The good news is that it’s the beginning of the day. It’s time to turn off the internet and write.
Another day of procrastination. I have a plot problem that put me into a tizzy last night and it took me most of the day of randomly updating my various websites to come to terms with the notion that I’m going to have to get over myself and just write it. I’m so terribly worried that I’m making a mistake. One moment I’m sure it’s wrong, wrong, wrong, and the next I’m telling myself to trust my gut. I called and whined to my mother for a good half-hour, until she got tired of my circular arguments both for and against my decision and finally just told me to get busy, she was taking a nap. :o
It’s going to be brutal this year, after a nearly two-month dry spell where I couldn’t—okay, wouldn’t—put my butt in a chair and work my fingers to the bone.
Let’s see, I write about 600-750 words an hour on a good day, so that’s like…OMG, two and a half to three hours of writing. It’s going to kill me.*
*Please accept my apologies for the OTT sarcasm. :D I’m feeling peppy today.
*No, really, it is, because making myself stay focused that long is going to take a lot of work!
