Writing: End of Week update, 5/4/12 (Edited)
My push to write has continued uninterrupted to date, even with a day when I took most of a workday off from the job (where I do most of my writing on my breaks) for a tweaked shoulder. This makes, to date, a total of 47,100 new words of fiction written, with three short stories and a novella completed!
An observation regarding my 500 word goal. I regularily double this, and occassionally triple it. I probably could boost that goal number to 750 as a baseline, but...then I think I would feel pressure and begin to let it lapse. Now I feel the excitement when I double my word goal. It feels like a competition with myself that I can only win, and that makes it fun. If I change it, feeling that a higher goal would work, then I think it would affect the flow. And I LIKE my progress. So many years not getting this done -
So, I had considered taking next week off for edits. Different sort of thing, where the wordage doesn't count against my goal. But it will be postponed until I hear back from a couple first readers on the novella, and too, I just completed one yesterday, and want to get feedback on that before heading into edit land. So --
Anyone wanna be a first reader on a 4460 word Science Fantasy?
EDIT: Well, today was really good - I have added in another 1800 words, making bothe the day and the week total the highest yet. For the week, I came in at 6100. I also completed a new story today. So -
Anyone wanna be a first reader on a 4460 word Science Fantasy?
AND/OR a 7600 word swamp tale with a rather quirky main character?
An observation regarding my 500 word goal. I regularily double this, and occassionally triple it. I probably could boost that goal number to 750 as a baseline, but...then I think I would feel pressure and begin to let it lapse. Now I feel the excitement when I double my word goal. It feels like a competition with myself that I can only win, and that makes it fun. If I change it, feeling that a higher goal would work, then I think it would affect the flow. And I LIKE my progress. So many years not getting this done -
So, I had considered taking next week off for edits. Different sort of thing, where the wordage doesn't count against my goal. But it will be postponed until I hear back from a couple first readers on the novella, and too, I just completed one yesterday, and want to get feedback on that before heading into edit land. So --
Anyone wanna be a first reader on a 4460 word Science Fantasy?
EDIT: Well, today was really good - I have added in another 1800 words, making bothe the day and the week total the highest yet. For the week, I came in at 6100. I also completed a new story today. So -
Anyone wanna be a first reader on a 4460 word Science Fantasy?
AND/OR a 7600 word swamp tale with a rather quirky main character?