I keep a copy of my manuscript on the hard drive at work, just in case. This morning I e-mailed it as usual–and it never got there. I spent the whole day wondering how I’d flubbed it up, a simple matter of clicking on the right name, attaching the right thing, and sending–and where the […]
Must've Been Monday Read More ยป
It’s 7 a.m. Coffee’s brewing, computer’s warming up. Sleeping in is for when there’s nothing to write. There’s always something to write. Onward!
Thirty-four thousand, eight hundred ninety-five words. Damn, I’m good. I was just thinking about that total, and the other “most” important rule of writing. There are a lot of them, aren’t there? Okay, tonight’s most important rule of writing is–ass in chair. You don’t sit, you don’t write. You might ponder, you might scribble, you
If I didn’t wait till I was done writing to blog, I would do it more often. But since I don’t stop writing till my eyes start crossing… Anyway. 32,475 is the total tonight. It was more, but I just yanked at least a thousand words. I’d gone down the wrong path, and screwed everything
But here’s the word count anyway–29,336. It occurred to me, I might talk a bit about how I organize my writing. Not that I’m an expert or even published yet, but heaven knows it’s taken me years of trial and error and “duh, why not do it this way?” to get where I am. Maybe
Word Counts Get Boring Read More ยป
That’s what BJ calls it, sitting and thinking and generally looking like you fell asleep with your eyes open. But it’s a great term for writers–drawn from “cogitation” which is, of course, thinking, and–well, knitting. Duh. It’s the tying of everything together, into one incredible, seamless, wonderful book. And I hope I’m doing it well.
When it comes to an angle to blog from, something to say about today, my mind is blank. Except for the word count, which is 24,088. Not flipping bad, if I do say so myself. But now, as usual, my eyes are crossing, and my computer seems to be breathing. Time for bed. Good night,