Day: May 3, 2016

A challenge for today

Lynn

I posted about the last few days’ writing, and now I’m going to post about my challenge for today. I’m trying one more time to break through the big 6,000 words in a day barrier I haven’t yet broken through.

Here’s my plan.

Write for 1 hour on each of my stories in progress. I’ve started the next book in the series for the novel I finished last week, so I’m back up to 6 stories that I consider myself to be actively working on. That’s 6 hours of writing.

But…

I’m going to try to write an extra 2 sessions on the story I need to finish asap, so I’m hoping to reach 8 hours of writing today. But just in case I can’t, I put those extra sessions for this story within the first 6 hours of my planned writing today.

I definitely think I can do 6 hours of writing today without too much trouble if I’m into the stories. I feel good, better than I have in quite a few days. :) It’s possible I was sick on Saturday (that headache) and not just sleep deprived, but whatever the problem, I’m feeling better now.

It’s time to get going on the writing. Lunch will be here before I know it, and I’d like to complete 3 sessions before I stop.

Challenge progress

Hour 1: 837 words
Hour 2: 720 words | 1,557 cumulative 1
Final count: 2,330 words, and about 3.5 hours total writing time (I didn’t use the timer at the end)

1 Hour 2 started much, much later than it should have. Considering just how behind I am, I have no idea if there’s any reasonable way I can still meet this challenge. The good news? I have worked on 2 stories today, and 1 of those was the book that I need to finish sooner rather than later. :)

 

Too much reading to write

Lynn

I’ve been reading too much (fiction) the last few days to write much of anything. :o But I finished reading a book last night just before I went to sleep and I didn’t start another. I’m not planning to. I haven’t gotten to a place where I can put a good book down and get back to work, so I’m going to have to get away from reading for a while because I have books to finish writing. Balance just doesn’t seem to be part of my personality.

My word count yesterday was 595 words, but considering how much I didn’t write, I was surprised to realize I wrote that many.

Saturday I still managed 1,439 words, and Sunday, 1,009. So, yeah, I admit, I’m still doing much better than I have in the past, especially while obsessed with something other than writing.

All I can say is that something has definitely changed. I just don’t know what yet.

Learn something from Dean Wesley Smith

Lynn

I’ve taken many of Dean Wesley Smith’s lectures and the only thing that’s stopped me from taking the workshops is the homework. I have difficulty writing on demand and I just can’t convince myself I can keep up with the assignments. But this week he started uploading some video from his Originality workshop to YouTube, and I jumped on it.

You can find the videos on his YouTube channel.

I’ve embedded the first video below.