I have plans. Plans to drive myself insane.
This is my most bad-ass icon, which is the necessary vibe for in this post.
I'm still "behind" for the year on my word count goal. And I really, really want to be caught up again. NOT writing for the past two weeks certainly hasn't helped matters, but I'm at that point in the Superhero Thing where the excitement of writing something new has worn off but I still have so much work to do and when I think about it, it makes me tired. End result = motivation? Not so good.
This morning I sat down and crunched the numbers to figure out what I needed to do to be caught up by the end of May, and it's daunting - just under 20,000 words. However, faced with a long holiday weekend, there is a hard but achievable way that I could get 'er done:
Saturday - 5,000 words
Sunday - 5,000 words
Monday - 5,000 words
Tuesday - 1,000 words
Wednesday - 1,000 words
Thursday - 1,000 words
Friday - 1,000 words (plus any remaining change)
Yes, that's write. Three 5K days in a row. Breaking them down into three sessions per day, that's 1,667 words per session, equal to the daily minimal wordcount for Nano.
I can do this? Right? *wibble*
Today my homework is to make a list of scenes to help me not get stuck, and also to research the symptoms of radiation sickness because I need to know that very soon and it will save me wasting time looking it up tomorrow.
Please send help. I was trying to go coffee-free until I reached a certain plateau on my weight-loss efforts, but I think this situation should really be an exception...
I'm still "behind" for the year on my word count goal. And I really, really want to be caught up again. NOT writing for the past two weeks certainly hasn't helped matters, but I'm at that point in the Superhero Thing where the excitement of writing something new has worn off but I still have so much work to do and when I think about it, it makes me tired. End result = motivation? Not so good.
This morning I sat down and crunched the numbers to figure out what I needed to do to be caught up by the end of May, and it's daunting - just under 20,000 words. However, faced with a long holiday weekend, there is a hard but achievable way that I could get 'er done:
Saturday - 5,000 words
Sunday - 5,000 words
Monday - 5,000 words
Tuesday - 1,000 words
Wednesday - 1,000 words
Thursday - 1,000 words
Friday - 1,000 words (plus any remaining change)
Yes, that's write. Three 5K days in a row. Breaking them down into three sessions per day, that's 1,667 words per session, equal to the daily minimal wordcount for Nano.
I can do this? Right? *wibble*
Today my homework is to make a list of scenes to help me not get stuck, and also to research the symptoms of radiation sickness because I need to know that very soon and it will save me wasting time looking it up tomorrow.
Please send help. I was trying to go coffee-free until I reached a certain plateau on my weight-loss efforts, but I think this situation should really be an exception...