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Weekend Update, Pt. 1
Short word count today* but that's okay because I finished this week's story. Tomorrow I'll look it over again to do some tweaking, and then it'll be OUT THE DOOR. Well, after I decide which market to submit to first.
As usual, I seesawed between "it's pretty damn good!" and "oh man, this blows chunks!" throughout the writing of this story. Which is why I'm teaching myself to Trust the Process and simply keep chugging away until the story is done. My feelings about the quality of the story are irrelevant.
On the other hand, my considered judgment does matter. Which is why I did revise the story somewhat midway through, and rearranged some scenes. Nonetheless, I did not allow that to substitute for getting my daily word count down. Writing is writing; editing is not writing. I can do both, but not at the same time, and editing does not substitute for writing.
Words Written Today: 819
Words Written YTD (since May 1): 12,157
Streak (500+ words/day): 6 Days
Stories in Circulation: 3
Stories Rejected: 0 (no responses of any kind as yet)
Stories Accepted: 0 (no responses of any kind as yet)
*The minimum for "streak" (consecutive days of new fiction written) purposes is 500 words each day. I'd much rather do at least 1,250, and preferably more.
As usual, I seesawed between "it's pretty damn good!" and "oh man, this blows chunks!" throughout the writing of this story. Which is why I'm teaching myself to Trust the Process and simply keep chugging away until the story is done. My feelings about the quality of the story are irrelevant.
On the other hand, my considered judgment does matter. Which is why I did revise the story somewhat midway through, and rearranged some scenes. Nonetheless, I did not allow that to substitute for getting my daily word count down. Writing is writing; editing is not writing. I can do both, but not at the same time, and editing does not substitute for writing.
Words Written Today: 819
Words Written YTD (since May 1): 12,157
Streak (500+ words/day): 6 Days
Stories in Circulation: 3
Stories Rejected: 0 (no responses of any kind as yet)
Stories Accepted: 0 (no responses of any kind as yet)
*The minimum for "streak" (consecutive days of new fiction written) purposes is 500 words each day. I'd much rather do at least 1,250, and preferably more.