I don't know what is wrong with me, or even if there is something wrong with me ( Read more... )

I don't believe in astrology, but I must admit that most of this week could be summed up as "Mercury is in retrograde".

As always, I have too much housework to do, but that will have to wait for a bit. I have a brief freelance assignment to take care of, and I intend to get the rough draft done this morning. My deadline isn't until a few weeks, but I don't want to put it off until the last moment. On the one hand, that's just a bad habit. On the other hand, I've ( Read more... )

It's a change of topic, at least ( Read more... )

I have scribbled and stumbled my way to the sixth scene in my outline. (I specify in my outline, because as I've been writing I have figured out that I need at least one more scene before now.) I need to push on, because that's the only way I will finish. But it's an important, pivotal scene, and I'm intimidated by it.

November is half-over and I have a little over 8K words written. It takes very little math to see that I am very behind. I'd like to say that I think I can catch up, but given my experience from being on the writing team for L5R I don't think that's possible ( Read more... )

Having missed three days in a row of writing on my NaNoWriMo novel, I really really need to hit the 2000/day mark if I am to finish on time. Trying to stay calm about this ( Read more... )

By Wedneday evening I had reached the 5000 word mark, which was still behind schedule if I wanted to finish on time but not impossibly so; the trick is to always keep nibbling away. Also, I had noticed I was starting to pick up some momentum, and getting more done each day ( Read more... )

I started writing last night. I didn't get very far, but I started. I am resolved not to be angry at myself because I was sick, I was tired, and that first paragraph is always so hard. I need to pick up the pace if I am to finish on time, however ( Read more... )

I didn't go to work today, having woke up with a sore throat and sinus pain. This was frustrating all around, because I could look around at all the housework that needed to be done but couldn't summon up the energy to do anything about it. My brain was frizzy as well, so I could neither write nor read anything needing concentration. It's been ( Read more... )