Day 1=15% of MK outlined
Reporting at the end of the first day
Today I was rather easily distracted, but when I did work, the immersion happened quickly. The mind worked well, and the fingers tended to hit mostly the right keys even at high speed.
Tomorrow I'll try to double the output--> start earlier, and be on the ready against various distractions.
In order for this hyper-productivity plan to work, I've stopped reading for the duration. I have a tidy pile of books on my desk, which to flip open and skim a page in order to get some basic inspiration via sympathetic magic--a Dean Koontz, a Leslie Charteris, a Raymond Chandler, a Stephen King, an Ian Fleming, and two of mine--but aside from this no reading whatsoever. For the duration of these weeks the reading/writing circuitry is busy only with my manuscript, and a few percent set aside for Absolute Write updates and terse email exchanges.
...Around 18.00, when most of the work was done, I did some ritualistic double-guitar turbo-improv on the laptop microphone, in order to keep the creative chemistry flowing, and then wrapped up the last four chapters that had to be outlined by plan.
The
Official Day One jam.
The plan keeps expanding number-wise, because my chapters keep swelling, and since I prefer compact chapters less than 2K in length, I split them along their natural fault-lines. So far every 5 planned chapters turn into about 8. We'll see how this tendency continues. I might end up with 150 chapters in a 160K book, or something.