I had a nice recovery in August. Not a fantastic word count for the month by any means, but a vast improvement over June and July. In fact, in August, I wrote more words than in June and July combined.
I finally finished a short story I started a few months back, and started another one. I’m still not working on the novel I set aside for the short stories, but I’m going to try to get back to it soon.
I still just don’t know what it is about that story that has me stumped, but it’s clear to me that I’m suffering from project block of some sort on it. It might be that the only way through it is to dig in again and just keep pushing until something gives.
That worked for the short story. I restarted it something like five times before I finally wrote something I wanted to be writing.
August words: 24,113.
My August word count was nothing to be unhappy about, even if I wanted to accomplish a bit more.
- My writing daily streak is alive and well. I haven’t had a zero word day since 8/5.
- My editing daily streak is alive. I’ve read and edited a little something every single day since I started that on 8/7.
On the other hand, I’m not sure the daily editing is serving the purpose I want it to serve.
I’m still going to read the entire story I just finished writing, despite having read through it a number of times now as I went. In the end, I don’t trust myself not to have missed something, and I can’t let go of the need to read it through from the start right before publishing. It’s just how I have to do things to feel comfortable letting it go.
We’ll see if I continue to find the daily editing a useful habit. I don’t think it hurts anything, but I just can’t see where it’s really helping either. As I become more prolific, it might pay off. We’ll see.
Onward to September.