Fiction writer. Expert procrastinator. This is my life.
I finished all 5 x 50 minute sessions before lunch today. I went over by an hour and a half but that’s not too bad. I’ll just work to get better.
I made it to 2,276 in 4.17 hours, for an average of 546 words an hour. Not the 600 per session I wanted, but better than the 400 minimum I needed to reach 2,000 words. Now, what to do with the rest of my day?
I make no promises to write more today, but that 3,000 is beckoning, so you never know. :)
Only one session to go. I completed writing sessions number 3 and 4, and I’m sitting at 1,634 words at 3.33 hours. That’s an average speed of 490 words per hour. If I maintain that, I’ll at least hit my 2,000 minimum word count goal for the day.
Now back to work. I’m starting to get hungry but I’m finishing this last session before I stop for lunch! When this 50 minutes is over, my writing block will have stretched from 8:30 to 2:10, or about 40 minutes longer than it should have. Meaning I took 1 hour and 40 minutes of breaks. I wish it felt like I’d had that much break time!
So far, not so great. I ended my first 50 minute session with 363 words.
Then I ended my second 50 minute session with 490 words. Cumulative.
It’s like I write, and then I spend the next however long tweaking and tuning and there’s no way out of that because what I wrote the first time wasn’t complete and didn’t have everything the way it needed to be. I’m not talking about word choice or flow or anything like that, although I admit I do tweak a bit of that as I go. What I’m talking about is the actual scene—what happens, when, and in what order.
If that isn’t right, I can’t move on.
Ugh. Well, my break is over and I have to get on my next session before I fall behind. BBL.
But… yay! 2 x 50 minutes sessions down and 3 to go before lunch and I think I might actually make it today, which will mean my first success with this experiment!