The blog post titles are a lot easier to come up with now, and they aren’t any more obscure than they were before, so that’s a win. :)
Today’s word counts
| Session # | Words | WPH |
| 1 | 46 | 131 |
| 2 | 84 | 240 |
| 3 | 32 | 91 |
| 4 | 99 | 283 |
| 5 | 57 | 163 |
| 6 | 61 | 174 |
| 7 | 166 | 474 |
| 8 | 239 | 683 |
| 9 | 72 | 206 |
| 10 | 0 |
Today’s title comes from a note on my session log. In it, I’m laying the blame for my low word counts in my first three sessions on the fact that I spent a lot of time during them reading through my previous books looking for clues to characterization and plot.
Unfortunately, my word counts didn’t improve a lot after I stopped doing that.
I don’t record session logs in my spreadsheet—there’s really no room for it—so writing them down seems like a good way to start paying attention to just how often I’m meeting my goal number of sessions.
I could put them in OneNote, and I have in the past kept up with sessions in my journals, but I really don’t like that. Also, the logs get kind of lost in the midst of all my ramblings, so… this seemed like something I wanted to try.
I’ve devoted one of my favorite notebooks to tracking them and I’m loving how accountable it makes me feel to write down the number of sessions I want to do. I can’t stand the idea of wasting that nice paper, so I’ve felt compelled to fill those slots today! Only two more to go before I call it a day.
Also, yesterday I didn’t find time to write a post because I actually got started writing really late and didn’t use timers. I wrote 813 words yesterday—on the wrong book.
Okay, so I’m planning to write that book next, so it’s not exactly wrong that I spent time on it, and I admit, I’ve needed a breakthrough for the opening of that book for a good long while and I had one last night, but I really need to finish this other book first so I do feel a little unhappy that I managed to write 813 words but that none of them were for the right book!