It has been a good day today

Cassiopeia · Aug 5, 2006

Wow, it has been a good day today. I added 2500 words to my novel. It feels good to be moving along and some of my random scenes are starting to fall into place. With any luck, I will be done in two months and ready to start revising

Thanks to the Uncle Jim's thread along with many of your contributions, I have found what I needed to know to move along again. I have been working on this book for 9 years. I am now setting a goal to finish the rest of it by November 1st.

~Casi~

DeborahM · Aug 6, 2006

Congrats to you! It is such a wonderful feeling after 9 years in labor!

FloVoyager · Aug 6, 2006

Good for you.

SeanDSchaffer · Aug 6, 2006

2500 words in a day? Cool!

Good luck with your work; I wish you the best with it.

bsolah · Aug 6, 2006

I hate you.

*Ben walks off mumbling about something to do with him not writing, and other people writing way more than he is - which is everyone*

Cassiopeia · Aug 6, 2006

bsolah said:
I hate you.

*Ben walks off mumbling about something to do with him not writing, and other people writing way more than he is - which is everyone*

AHAHAHAHA!!!! Ben...you just made my day! Thank you for making me laugh. I turned 48 today and was thinking...I better get my *** moving if I am ever going to finish before I am 84.

Now go sit down in your chair and write. I did something yesterday before I worked on my novel that might help. I know it seemed to break through my barrier. I worked on a journal entry. For the first time EVER, I let rip in my writing on a totally unrelated subject. Got all the crap out of my head that was lurking there and wham...I turned around and wrote 2500 words in two hours for my novel. Record breaking for me really.

So give ranting a try.

Ordinary_Guy · Aug 6, 2006

I envy your 2500 words.

I'm avoiding working on a bit that shouldn't be any more than about 300: my synopsis.

Must write the syn... hey, don't the dishes need to be washed? Think I'll go do that instead.

bsolah · Aug 6, 2006

I find that I'm fine once I get those first few painful sentences out. I did write 250 words last week towards a novel I haven't touched in months. The ranting doesn't work for me anymore, I've totally sucked the life out of that and now it's just a procrastination tool.

byElizabeth · Aug 6, 2006

Woo-Hoo! 2500 words today...excellent pace.

bsolah · Aug 6, 2006

Ugh!

After I finish doing other assorted crap, I'm going to write!!

ChaosTitan · Aug 6, 2006

It's finally time to peel my butt off the desk chair and move away from the computer. My co-author and I managed to bang out 7900 words today, between the two of us, and work out the next couple of chapters.

This is the most productive day I've had in ages. And most exhausting....

Cassiopeia · Aug 6, 2006

chaostitan said:
It's finally time to peel my butt off the desk chair and move away from the computer. My co-author and I managed to bang out 7900 words today, between the two of us, and work out the next couple of chapters.

This is the most productive day I've had in ages. And most exhausting....

WoooHoo! Show off

I am happy for you. It is time for me to take some more time for writing now.

See ya round the galaxy

Cassiopeia · Aug 6, 2006

Ordinary_Guy said:
I envy your 2500 words.

I'm avoiding working on a bit that shouldn't be any more than about 300: my synopsis.

Must write the syn... hey, don't the dishes need to be washed? Think I'll go do that instead.

Boy you must really want to put it off if you...being a guy are willing to do the dishes instead! *gasp* oh my word..that was sexist of me wasn't it?

Cassiopeia · Aug 6, 2006

I was concerned today that yesterday was just a stroke of luck but I am so grateful to say that I did another 2500 words and I am only taking a break so I just might get more done. I notice I seem to be a lot more creative in the late evening and even close to midnight when I can get everyone to quiet down and let me be alone.

I had to remind my family once tonight when they came barging in with some problem. I cleared my throat and said,

"Was my door closed?"
"Oh! yes it was!" said my son.
"I am writing." I said.
"Oh yeah huh?" was his reply.
I patiently smiled as he and my ex husband (wanting to be husband again) stared at me and I pointed to the door and said with a grin,
"OUT! and close the door please."

Thankfully they took it in stride grinning on their way out.

Such another good day!

Ordinary_Guy · Aug 7, 2006

Casiopeia said:
Boy you must really want to put it off if you...being a guy are willing to do the dishes instead! *gasp* oh my word..that was sexist of me wasn't it?

Me and this particular synopsis. How do I put it? It's like... "Fear and Loathing in Microsoft Word."

Nexusman · Aug 7, 2006

You know you're in the zone when you stop setting an alarm for the minimum time writing, and have to start setting one for the maximum time you spend writing. (Lest losing several hours of sleep before a big project... guilty.)

-Nick

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