The title was a note to myself from my notebook about trying 60 minute sessions (yesterday). :)
Session 1
I wrote 535 words, which means I’m on track to finish today’s minimum word count in less than 3 hours of timed writing. Yay! I have 1,022 words to go. :)
Session 2
I wrote 380 words, bringing my pace down to 458 words an hour. :(
Also, I am not loving these 60 minute sessions. I thought I’d give them another shot today, but I’m done. The next session will not be 60 minutes. They’re just not working for me and I don’t want to sabotage the rest of the night’s writing. (Because, yes, somehow it became 6:49 pm while I wasn’t looking.)
I have 642 words left to write and it’ll take an estimated 1.40 hours to do it.
Session 3
Despite saying otherwise, this session was 60 minutes long. I wrote even fewer words this time than last—only 313 words.
I moved to the living room and did them on the couch, and although it’s helping me relax more, it’s not helping my writing! I just can’t get comfortable today for writing. {ugghhhh}
A lot of my problem is caused by a side-effect of that home maintenance project I did on Monday and Tuesday. I am terribly allergic to mosquito bites. And I have what feels like a bazillion of them, courtesy of that stupid project. And the itching is driving me up the wall. Feels like I’ve been in contact with poison ivy! If I’d thought for a moment mosquitoes were going to be a problem I’d have hosed myself down in insect repellent but it never even occurred to me to worry about mosquitoes.
Anyway, better get busy with those last 329 words I need. It’s 10:29 and I’ve committed to ending my writing days at the stroke of midnight. I might sometimes keep writing, but anything after 12:00 pm sharp will not go into the previous day’s count.
If I want to reach my minimum for today, I only have 1.5 hours to do it.
Sessions 4–6
I finally abandoned the 60 minute sessions. These sessions were 20, 20, and 13 minutes long. I wrote 400 words exactly for a total of 1,628 words today.
Which, whew, because I really wanted to finish my minimum word count for the day. :D
Session totals
- 535
- 380
- 313
- 67
- 217
- 116
Sessions 1–3 were 60 minutes, and sessions 4–5 were 20 minutes, while session 6 was 13 minutes.
- 1,628 total words
- in 3.883 hours
- for a pace of 419 words per hour
The hell if I know why that number of hours took me all day, but that’s pretty much how it is the majority of the time, so I guess I should quit being surprised by this.
See you back here tomorrow.