Rainy Wednesday

Today’s progress:

Project: White Raven draft one

New words: 4,542 (Yes, you read that right)

Total words: 62,859

Goal: 100k

Writing:

I wish all of my writing days could be like today.  To be fair, I actually wrote all those words editing the last chapter I’d written, since much of it had been written while under the effects of a fever and was all over the place.  I’m much happier with it now, though it’s going to need more editing, of course.

I’m wondering how long this book is going to end up being.  For a while I was thinking it would only be about 80k, but now I’m thinking it may be more than 100k.  I still have a tonne of stuff to cover, and a lot of plot threads to tie together.  I’m sure I’ve lost track of some subplots along the way, too, which I’ll have to recover upon editing.

Man, I envy people who put together really clean first drafts.  I don’t think I’ll ever  be one of them.  Even when I outline loosely, I end up meandering all over the place.

I’ve been seriously attacked by one of the other novels waiting in the queue to be written, too.  I’m staving it off for now by making notes, since my brain doesn’t work well on multiple projects.

Real life:

Not much accomplished today, apart from some review work.  Which is probably why I had the energy to write more.  I wish I had more days when I didn’t have other stuff to do and could just focus on the real work.  But the reality is that the house won’t clean itself (and I won’t tolerate living in mess, nor force the husband to do housework, since he works much longer and more stressful hours than me) and we need to eat.

I feel like I should streamline my hours more.  Which leads me back to the old thing of really needing to wake up earlier and make more use of the morning.  By the time I get going on anything in the morning it’s 9.30 at the earliest, and I’ve wasted half of the day.

And things are only going to be crazier with time allocation at the end of the year, when we add another member to the family.  Then I’ll look back on these days with fondness, I’m sure.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.