The problem with Alphasmart is that there’s no word count function, and so I’ll write and write and write and think I’ve written thousands of words, and feel really good about myself, and then I’ll plug it in and upload my writings and find out I only wrote three pages. Read more…
This hasn’t been the best week for me for writing. But it hasn’t exactly been the best week for me in terms of emotional wellness, either, so I’m not beating myself up about it. I’ve still made more progress this week than in the preceding month, so that’s something.
My summerwrite word count currently stands at 3,209, which isn’t that great a showing for the first week, but it’s still makeupable. The Hero Factor is now over 60,000 words long, which officially makes it novel-length, and I’m rounding third base and heading into the home stretch. Still, I expect the home stretch to encompass at least another 25,000 words, so I’ll still be at this one for a while.
And because sharing helps motivate me to keep going, here’s another snippet of yesterday’s output.
Michael slept. So did Taggart. Michael slept the sleep of the righteous and wounded. Taggart, the sleep of the drunk. Thea had more patience for the former.
Written in answer to NightMaden’s Deja Vu challenge.
Well, today was a complete wash (Wash! *sniff*) as far as writing at work goes. Yesterday, I had plenty of time and no inclination. Today I had plenty of inclination but no time. I might be able to hammer out a few hundred words before bedtime tonight, and if I do I’ll post my word count to twitter.
In the meantime, here’s another sneak peek at The Hero Factor (spoiler alert!):
More from THF: “Son of a bitch!” “I don’t know what you’re getting so worked up about. This means you’re your own badass. That’s a good thing!” “But I don’t want to be a badass! Not unless I’m getting paid large sums of money and leaving the actual badassery to Read more…
Here’s a (very rough) sneak peek at Ceredwyn, all grown up, in the hopes that posting this will motivate me to write more.
In a ring of fire on the surface of the black pool in Mab’s fortress, Ceredwyn watched them go.
Well, I’m here. I’ve got a ton of catching up to do. I want to thank everyone for their kind messages, and I’ll get back to everyone individually as the week rolls on. I got a smidgen of writing done yesterday, but also a lot of background writing on both Read more…
Auto-transcription of my voice posts never fails to crack me up. I’m here now, but today has been crazy. Between network problems, meetings, and catching up on all I missed yesterday (which I’m still not done doing yet), I haven’t even had time to think about writing, let alone get Read more…