Writing Weekend
Mostly random stuff this morning. Read some comics. Finished Callahan's Cross-Time Saloon. Errands in the afternoon. Late lunch at Ruby's, which always lends itself to not needing dinner that night. Weather went from warm and sunny to gloomy and cool during lunch.
Picked up writing early evening. My goal is to hit 20,000 words by the end of the weekend, which should put me on track (20K/50K = 12d/30d = 40%). Looks like I can make it.
Concluded that the progress gauge I've been using here is either using something other than time to determine the goal, or just plain b0rked. It went from 13,105 yesterday to 12,896 today. Maybe it's based on average words/day or something.
It's odd to be writing with the only goal being word count. But it's also oddly liberating. That's kind of gone down now, since I've been establishing a world and characters, and at the very least I have to keep things more or less consistent. I guess it's the freedom to mess up. It doesn't matter if what I write is crap. As long as I finish it, I can revise it as much as I want later.
I had a bit of conflict insert itself into the story today. Completely unintended, but the character was acting grumpy, and started explaining why. In such a way that's going to make things complicated for a while.
One of the big problems I've been having since I started to see the overall shape is that the stuff I have the best handle on comes near the end of the story. I'm enough out of practice to not have a sense of how long it'll take to get there, but I want to get a sense of where the characters are before I start writing too far ahead.
Word Count: 17415
Picked up writing early evening. My goal is to hit 20,000 words by the end of the weekend, which should put me on track (20K/50K = 12d/30d = 40%). Looks like I can make it.
Concluded that the progress gauge I've been using here is either using something other than time to determine the goal, or just plain b0rked. It went from 13,105 yesterday to 12,896 today. Maybe it's based on average words/day or something.
It's odd to be writing with the only goal being word count. But it's also oddly liberating. That's kind of gone down now, since I've been establishing a world and characters, and at the very least I have to keep things more or less consistent. I guess it's the freedom to mess up. It doesn't matter if what I write is crap. As long as I finish it, I can revise it as much as I want later.
I had a bit of conflict insert itself into the story today. Completely unintended, but the character was acting grumpy, and started explaining why. In such a way that's going to make things complicated for a while.
One of the big problems I've been having since I started to see the overall shape is that the stuff I have the best handle on comes near the end of the story. I'm enough out of practice to not have a sense of how long it'll take to get there, but I want to get a sense of where the characters are before I start writing too far ahead.
Word Count: 17415