I knew that the only way I’d get in my writing today was to write both at noon, then after work. So I did 500 words at noon, about 1000 later, before going out to eat dinner with a friend. I haven’t typed up everything I’ve written — I have at least another 500+ words,
Wrote out about 10 pages by hand this afternoon. The words came pretty easily. I really like writing by hand. I just find the computer distracting. I used to compose directly on the computer. I also used to write much slower. I can write by hand really quickly. Here is the official count for week
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I tend to approach the world with confidence. Or at least most people who know me believe that. And it’s mostly true. It isn’t that my confidence is faked — but sometimes it isn’t as complete as it appears externally. It may be squishy, easily dissolved, or even hollow in places. This weekend I received
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I have finished the rewrite of the three novels! or at least this rewrite w00t! Three things were key for me for this project: 1. Know thy process. By identifying what I was really afraid of, what had bogged me down before, I was able to figure out some strategies for overcoming them. 2. Come
While laying in bed debating whether rising was going to be worth the pain (there’s no way to go from prone to upright without pain at this point) I made a connection I hadn’t before. The chapter that required the most rewrite in the third novel (pretty much from scratch) was the second to the
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I did something to my shoulder. Ended up with muscle spasms, radiating out from there, down my left arm. Was pretty useless for a couple of days, couldn’t use that hand. I’m currently taking steroids and muscle relaxants. I’ve continued to work on the novel, either doing one-handed typing or gritting my teeth through the
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Of course, after I went to bed last night my brain started developing this new short story. I thought for a while I was going to have to get up and write it, but no, I was able to go to sleep. This morning, I had a coughing fit and woke up 30 minutes before
Jay Lake has a post about motivation that I tried responding to a couple of times but decided instead to post about it here, myself. Some of my motivations sound very similar to Jay’s, in that I gave myself permission to succeed. Failure’s easy. That just means you have to work harder, do more, etc.
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I finished reading every chapter of the third novel out loud, as well as incorporating the changes this morning. YAY!!! I’ve already put the first novel through this process. Which means I only have the second novel to do this to. If I can continue at this pace, that is, a chapter a day, I