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1500 words last night. 1200 words the night before (but each one sucked and suffered the wrath of the DEL key). About 800 Sunday night (no football game on).
I actually have a widget I coded for my Wordpress page that I can record my word counts in. It's meaningless, as word-count doesn't imply any kind of quality, but it does help me hold myself accountable in that I'm actually writing.
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Past three days have been 500-750 words. I've discovered a new method to keep myself productive: Every time I sit at the computer I force myself to do 250 words. Doing a little bit at a time seems to be a lot less scary to my nonproductive self.
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I started coming in to work 2 hours early and I write from 7am to 9am before anyone else gets in.
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If you count revision, I did five hundred a day, but the five hundred I did yesterday finished the draft I was working on. Have to lay off today, too busy with all this real life stuff.
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Zero. But I have been reading a 15k story and did a little editing on 9k story of mine--so that's work!
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I vote we keep this thread going. I plan to post here as much as I can remember, even if I don't make the limit (Though not posting excuses as to why)
It's helpful having people to report to at the end of a day, especially those within the same profession. Thanks for this, Skadder. The weekly one is nice, but a daily one allows me less room to squirm.
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Just found this thread. Cool thread. Why? Because I wasnt in the mood to write, and in fact the first 178 words took forever, ok thirty minutes, but man, thought it would never come, but the last 440 took only ten.
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Wrote nearly 1000 words on Sunday, though some of them got cut on the immediate after-read. Had another great Eureka moment day. Did a bit of editing and plotting, too.
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645 words today on my work in progress. A little concerned it might be stretching the piece out, but a lot of good stuff in the last 2 days I believe to work with, also wrote in intro to a new idea that called out of nowhere.
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Monday sucked. I wrote around 500 words, but most of them have been junked already. Very frustrating day, especially after having so many breakthroughs in a row. Oh well, such is how it goes.
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605 and counting. Another season, which equals a scene in my Work in Progress, only 3 more to go.
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None yet. About 2,100 words yesturday, and then I worked on revisions for my short story, Injection, which I believe is really almost finished enough to start sending out.
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Such lovely timing. I haven't even been on Hatrack once this summer, nor have I written anything(lovely use of the word 'nor' if I do say so myself). So today, I wrote 1,274 words and came back here, where I find a ready made challenge to get me back in the groove. Skadder, you are amazing.
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Glad to have you back, unwritten. Glad to see you hitting the target.
Note to all: if you see your story cupboard is bare, i.e. you have nothing plotted to the point you'd like to start writing, then just pick a random character and start him off on some adventure, or put him an a dire circumstance (aboard a sinking ship, tied to the mast!) and see what happens to him. It may develop into a story (you never know) or it may prompt you with an idea for another story. Or take the character and have them interact with someone--make it someone he/she conflicts with somewhat. It may give you a little more depth to the character when you later use them.
Worst case scenario is you hit your 500 word target...
Get writing!
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Thanks skadder! I've really missed it here. I didn't realize it would be so hard to come back from taking a break. My writing muscles are all atrophied.
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I didn't write for about 9 months...I was doing a university course. I always find that the struggle to get back to my previous skill level usually means I end up better than before. I think that is partly due to the panic i experience that drives me forward.
I have in the past stopped writing for a month or two, while I decide what it is about my writing I want to improve. I then spend time dreaming up lines of prose that somehow incorporate these new ideals...when it feels as though it is starting to come together, I go back to the keyboard and begin typing
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Yeah. 652 words and first draft is done. Thanks skadder for the thread. I myself had been struggling to get fully back in the rythm for a long time. I dont want to miss a day on the thread. Posts: 1168 | Registered: Mar 2008
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You're doing well. I did 550 words of weird little zombie story; it's not happening the way I wanted it to, so I may start again, but at least I hit my mark.
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Not yet to the fool level yet. Only wrote about 200 words yesterday. But I do have a lot of time today because of the tropical storm in the neighborhood. Can't mow grass in the rain! Posts: 365 | Registered: Aug 2010
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652 for me. This new story is flying right along. Hope to have first draft complete in 2 more days.
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