Today's Production
May. 26th, 2010 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuThirty-one hundred words. It required a little extra writing time this evening, but I made my quota of 3,000 words. More is always better, but it was more difficult to write today despite my satisfaction with what I wrote yesterday. My feelings, they are a yo-yo. Up. Down. Up down up down up down. I found that I really, really didn't want to start writing today, but I forced myself to do it.
And it went slowly at first. But I persevered, and late in the afternoon the log jam finally broke and I managed to get to about 2700 words--and only stopped because I had to go pick up my lovely and talented wife at work, as I do every day. But now I've topped the 3K point for today. Three more such days and I'll have 100,000 words on this puppy.
Then, as I've mentioned, I'll let it sit for a couple of weeks and turn my attention to other projects--some short stories that have been simmering on the back burner for a while.
It's funny. When I set out to write a second novel at the beginning of March, I intended to have a second, backup project on deck just in case I needed to shift gears. That scheme fell by the wayside. I found that I wasn't prepared to actually do that. I think I was afraid that if I stopped working on this novel, that I wouldn't get back to it. I still think a backup project is a good idea, but it may be that until I have another novel or two under my belt, and I'm convinced--convinced way, way deep down in my soul--that I can finish them, it may be better to slog straight through rather than jump back and forth between projects.
Stories in Circulation: 11
Rejections: 39
Stories Accepted: SEVEN
Stories to Resubmit: 0
Novel Queries: 1 Novel, 4 queries out
Novel Rejections: 6
Project 1: Starship Repo Man (Tentative Title: Nine Tenths of the Law)
Words Written: 91,214
And it went slowly at first. But I persevered, and late in the afternoon the log jam finally broke and I managed to get to about 2700 words--and only stopped because I had to go pick up my lovely and talented wife at work, as I do every day. But now I've topped the 3K point for today. Three more such days and I'll have 100,000 words on this puppy.
Then, as I've mentioned, I'll let it sit for a couple of weeks and turn my attention to other projects--some short stories that have been simmering on the back burner for a while.
It's funny. When I set out to write a second novel at the beginning of March, I intended to have a second, backup project on deck just in case I needed to shift gears. That scheme fell by the wayside. I found that I wasn't prepared to actually do that. I think I was afraid that if I stopped working on this novel, that I wouldn't get back to it. I still think a backup project is a good idea, but it may be that until I have another novel or two under my belt, and I'm convinced--convinced way, way deep down in my soul--that I can finish them, it may be better to slog straight through rather than jump back and forth between projects.
Stories in Circulation: 11
Rejections: 39
Stories Accepted: SEVEN
Stories to Resubmit: 0
Novel Queries: 1 Novel, 4 queries out
Novel Rejections: 6
Project 1: Starship Repo Man (Tentative Title: Nine Tenths of the Law)
Words Written: 91,214