65,466 / 80,000
(81.0%)

I think I’m having plotting issues. The climax is beginning to unfold and I’m not sure how it all fits together. I need to take some time to map it out and write some character stuff. That, and the fact I’m going to be unplugged from the net [...]

The four-day headache finally got addressed by the chiropractor today, but the pain and then the doctor kinda kocked off schedule.

Excuses? Yes. But I did write. Just not very much. I need to sit down and plot out the last 15K words. The climax is looming.

65,136 / 80,000

64,933 / 80,000
(81.0%)

Yesterday Michael Stackpole asked me if I had tracked my words per hour rate. I never had. I know, if I know what I’m writing about, I can write a 1000 word essay in half an hour, but I hadn’t tracked ficiton.

So I made myself not look at email or IM while I [...]

63,315 / 80,000
(79.0%)

Still not hitting the 1000k a day, but writing every day is better than not.

In other news, had a good note from Michael A. Stackpole today. I’ll be interviewing him shortly for this podcast, so stay tuned!

Words written last night: 175.

I was tired. I was grumpy. And yet my own damn words rang in my head, sitting on my high horse, telling you that you can spare 15 minutes a day to write. So I got 175 words out.

Damn me.

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