After a very frustrating day of sitting there doing nothing, as related on Magical Words, I managed to shake off some of my stupor and get 2200 words written. I finished this wretched chapter, which more or less shoves everybody into at least the same geographical area, and leaves me with nothing more to do than juggle fifty thousands words of politics against the backdrop of what is effectively a world war. I need my head checked. ytd wordcount: 140,600
Tag: the pretender’s crown
not bad.
7400 words today. I should go re-sign-up for Novel in 90, which I totally flamed out on when I hurt my hand (otoh (heh), I in fact blew away the 67,500 word expectation with my 119.1K in the first 3 months of the year), but quantum willing and the creek don’t rise (and if I can keep this productivity rate up), I will finish this book a week Friday, and not start another one until (drumroll please) … MAY FIRST! …I think I’ll go fling myself in a pit now.…
we’ll have to go right to…
I have a bunch of P-Con stories I want to tell, but I need to get away from the computer, and I fear that by the time I’m willing to come back and blog a lot I’ll have forgotten them. That, though, is a price I may be forced to pay, because I don’t want to be at the computer any more right now and am planning a Ludicrous Speed Writing Blitz over the next three days, which will not make me want to blog. Even as a procrastinatory technique.…
Day Five: I Rule The World
When I reached 5K today and added up my wordcount for the week, I discovered that with one thing and another, I had written 28,907 words since Sunday. 28,907 is awfully close to a nice round 30,000. And it was slightly before 5pm. “Shit,” I said, and went and wrote another 1100 words so that they wouldn’t be hanging around haunting me tomorrow, which is supposed to be My Day Off. And now it is 6pm, and I have written thirty thousand words this week, and god damn if I…
Day Four: Triumphant!
Today’s early start meant I finished my 5K before 6pm. If I had been a Truly Swell Person, I would’ve charged along and continued to write until 6, but I’m just not that good a person. At all. But I am 4/5ths of the way through my Writing Blitz week, and tomorrow’s 5K will finish the chapter I’m working on, and probably start another, but it takes me through just about all of the set-up. I think my Big Event–the one that in the original synopsis for THE QUEEN’S BASTARD…