Here I am, marching along (not chugging today: not enough momentum), and man this scene’s getting long and the chapter’s not the longest but if this scene doesn’t end soon it’ll be rivaling the longest and whew, finally hit 3K for the day and chug chug ok can I wrap it up here no not really but if I go back and fix something *goes back and …* And wow, that transition is really ugly. Rrrreeaaally ugly. Like, ugly enough that *I* don’t get what happened. Ok, how to fix…
to be or not to be
To be or not to be morally superior, that is the question. Whether it is nobler to write another 9 pages or so and hit the 1/3rd mark, or to stop now when my wordcount is an exact and therefore amusing-to-me 5K. Nothing wrong with stopping now, and if I do, there’s plenty of time to shower and go into Cork to buy some fresh froot this afternoon. Nothing wrong with not stopping now, either, though I really do want that shower, and frequently showering interrupts the writing flow in…
Tammy rules.
My friend Tamara Siler Jones has been saying sensible things about writing in her blog lately. The most recent, “Time for Discipline,” just rules. People who’re having trouble buckling down to write should go read it. (I’m looking at you, .) Erm. That’s about all I’ve got to say. I’d best take Tammy’s advice to heart and go to work myself. :) miles to Isengard: 149
offline
I’m going to try to stay offline mostly this weekend, as it’s the 4th of July weekend in the States and I expect nobody much will be around. I would like to say the result of me doing this would be an enormous amount of productivity, but I stayed up *way* too late last night and have no intention or expectation of being productive at all today. I suspect it may be all I can do to stay awake. :) My graham crackers, which I keep wanting to call ginger…
boo-yah
I have just hit the 200K mark for fiction words written this year. I have another 195K or so of actual contracted work due this year, not including revisions, and while visions of sugarplums dance in my head about achieving an extra 80K beyond that, this is the first time I’ve ever been dead on track halfway through the year. So far this year I’ve: – turned in 3 manuscripts (HEART OF STONE, COYOTE DREAMS, THE PHOENIX LAW) – revised 2 mss to editorial spec (HoS, tPL) – written 2…