Oh, on the word quota thing. This is my decision: I’m going to leave my quota at 1100 words a day. If I achieve that, good; that’s what I need to do to make my year goal. That’s all I *need* to do. So that’s my quota. My *goal* will continue to be 1500 words on the primary project and 1000 on the secondary. I suspect ultimately it’ll even out, because I do tend to take weekends from writing, even if it’s not during an actual weekend. But that, I…
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cat exploded!
A cat exploded kind of writing morning. I got 2300 words written this morning and then worked 2.5 chapters back in to the book, although they are not yet edited. Still, it puts me at 60K! Only 40 to go! Hooray! Well, ok, we’ll see how close to 60K I am when I’ve gotten the necessary edits done, but it’ll be closer to 60 than 50, at least! Perhaps this afternoon I’ll try to get a thousand written on TQB, too. I know where I’m going with that, I just…
good grief
Man, it’s beautiful out. Ten below, but beautiful. Sat down to write this morning (finally), and thought, “Hm, maybe this is the place to start working in some of the already-written stuff,” and so I opened up the original ch. 15, which is where I thought the stuff I needed was. Nope. Okay, so I opened up the original 16. Nope. Hm. Opened up the original 14, although gosh, I thought I only had stuff from 15 and 16 to amalgamate. Hm. Not there either. *13*. I had to go…
better
Okay, that’s better. Got my hundred and ninety eight pages printed out, read (edited some), and got my timeline straight. I now know I’m on day four and I believe I have three days left. I hope Jo gets a chance to sleep: writing about her when she’s this tired makes me yawn a lot. :) Furthermore, re-reading has allowed me to remember some things I need to pick up in the next several chapters, so that’s also good. And boy. I’ve done huge amounts of re/new-writing, and as I…
whew.
Sheesh. Take a couple days off from writing and look what happens. You lose total control over how many days have passed in your book. Actually, I was on the verge of doing that anyway–I’ve rewritten so much that I no longer know exactly when things are happening in relation to one another–and so I sat down, wrote about twelve words, then went ‘shit, is it time for this yet, or should that be tomorrow?’ So I thought I’d better read it. And, well, reading is easier done on paper…