Writing = FAIL
Nov. 10th, 2008 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2So far my participation in NaNoWriMo this year has been full of fail.
In order to write 50,000 words in a month, you need to average about 1,600 words a day. I didn't write anything the first couple of days, then wrote a few hundred words. By Friday I had not written much more, but I thought that, with a big push Friday night and on the weekend, I could catch up.
I wrote nothing Friday. I wrote nothing Saturday. I wrote nothing for much of Sunday, then late in the evening I sat down and finished a few more scenes.
I've now written a bit over 2,000 words total. I have about 6 or 8 scenes finished for the next chapter of Girls School (chapter 16 I think?) so that's good, but I really need to work a bit harder at it. I'm also not convinced that the quality is high enough for publication, but having scenes written is better than not having scenes written.
Meh. Writing is easy, but sitting down to write is difficult.
I suppose on the plus side, I avoided playing City of Heroes much. I got my walk in on Sunday, I did 3 loads of laundry, I cleaned up the kitchen a bit and made an enchilada casserole thingy that will provide me with lunches for four days this week (I went out for lunch all five days last week -- bleah).
Over the weekend I read Fables: Arabian Nights and Fables: Wolves. Next is The Good Prince I think, which I've read before but I don't own and I'm in the mood to read again. I think I'm going to go buy it tonight.
Friday I wandered around the Southcenter Mall (basically my "walk" for that day -- I walked around the mall). I bought some Raspberry Black loose tea from Teavana and tea bags, which I brought to work today. After I made my purchase I tried some of the sample tea they had -- a Chai Roobis tea blend that was very tasty. I think I need to go back and get some of that, and while I'm at it hit the bookstore and buy the next volume of Fables or so.
In order to write 50,000 words in a month, you need to average about 1,600 words a day. I didn't write anything the first couple of days, then wrote a few hundred words. By Friday I had not written much more, but I thought that, with a big push Friday night and on the weekend, I could catch up.
I wrote nothing Friday. I wrote nothing Saturday. I wrote nothing for much of Sunday, then late in the evening I sat down and finished a few more scenes.
I've now written a bit over 2,000 words total. I have about 6 or 8 scenes finished for the next chapter of Girls School (chapter 16 I think?) so that's good, but I really need to work a bit harder at it. I'm also not convinced that the quality is high enough for publication, but having scenes written is better than not having scenes written.
Meh. Writing is easy, but sitting down to write is difficult.
I suppose on the plus side, I avoided playing City of Heroes much. I got my walk in on Sunday, I did 3 loads of laundry, I cleaned up the kitchen a bit and made an enchilada casserole thingy that will provide me with lunches for four days this week (I went out for lunch all five days last week -- bleah).
Over the weekend I read Fables: Arabian Nights and Fables: Wolves. Next is The Good Prince I think, which I've read before but I don't own and I'm in the mood to read again. I think I'm going to go buy it tonight.
Friday I wandered around the Southcenter Mall (basically my "walk" for that day -- I walked around the mall). I bought some Raspberry Black loose tea from Teavana and tea bags, which I brought to work today. After I made my purchase I tried some of the sample tea they had -- a Chai Roobis tea blend that was very tasty. I think I need to go back and get some of that, and while I'm at it hit the bookstore and buy the next volume of Fables or so.
