I don't know what my daily totals are but at this time I am up to 18,337 words! I couldn't write at all for four days because my laptop broke but I am so excited to be back.
My current struggles are: - I don't know for sure if I'm writing my Sagittarius accurately. - My Taurus is shaping up to be much less cool and much more anxious, which is not what I wanted but at least makes sense for her inner dialouge. Might not be a real struggle, actually. I might make her nervous on the inside but appear cool to others. - Not sure how my date rape scene reads. Will have to think about it and edit it a lot come July.
What has helped a lot: - I wrote scenes out on index cards and arranged them in a timeline form. This helped me with A LOT of things I needed to figure out. - Writing a scene just for the purpose of having it written, so I could move on from it. - Strikeout as an option for when I hate a scene. Makes me feel less bogged down by it, while still contributing to my word count.
I don't think I could plan out scenes ahead of time to have a timeline. The one story I tried to make a timeline for failed miserably... But then again, I'm not really a planner and more of a "oh, lets see where this goes" type of person.
What I did was I made index cards for the scenes already written and then I figured out what scenes I need to put between them! So it was actually a lot less planning than it sounds!
Oh wow those would drive me nuts, especially before bed. I try to "write what I know" so that I have to do as little research as possible on things that might be devastating to read about.
June 5th: 1661 June 6th: 1272 June 7th: 3206 June 8th: 208 June 9th: 1089 June 10th: 6665
Total: 23236
(I use ywriter which keeps track of my progress for me by day. I <3 ywriter)
umm.. Life happened and stress in the middle of that... making writing go meh for a little bit. Then yesterday happened with the amazing idea of awesomeness (which is actually probably crud, but it was amazing yesterday) and yeah. that's about it.
lol, it probably won't anytime soon. I'm waiting to hear about loan money being approved and that is soo stressful! Plus, I found out that I have to pay out money before I get my loan money (if it is approved.) Basically, I hate money. lol.
and yeah. I try to force myself to be ahead. If I fall too far behind I don't catch up very well (and this usually leads to me giving up.) If I'm ahead I can have days where I write ten words and feel okay about that. And even though I am ahead, I still feel behind. I really am a strange one.
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My current struggles are:
- I don't know for sure if I'm writing my Sagittarius accurately.
- My Taurus is shaping up to be much less cool and much more anxious, which is not what I wanted but at least makes sense for her inner dialouge. Might not be a real struggle, actually. I might make her nervous on the inside but appear cool to others.
- Not sure how my date rape scene reads. Will have to think about it and edit it a lot come July.
What has helped a lot:
- I wrote scenes out on index cards and arranged them in a timeline form. This helped me with A LOT of things I needed to figure out.
- Writing a scene just for the purpose of having it written, so I could move on from it.
- Strikeout as an option for when I hate a scene. Makes me feel less bogged down by it, while still contributing to my word count.
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Oh wow those would drive me nuts, especially before bed. I try to "write what I know" so that I have to do as little research as possible on things that might be devastating to read about.
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June 6th: 1272
June 7th: 3206
June 8th: 208
June 9th: 1089
June 10th: 6665
Total: 23236
(I use ywriter which keeps track of my progress for me by day. I <3 ywriter)
umm.. Life happened and stress in the middle of that... making writing go meh for a little bit. Then yesterday happened with the amazing idea of awesomeness (which is actually probably crud, but it was amazing yesterday) and yeah. that's about it.
I'm sorry about your computer. :-(
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23k is very much ahead of the game so you're doing really well! I hope that life settles down and stress goes away!
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and yeah. I try to force myself to be ahead. If I fall too far behind I don't catch up very well (and this usually leads to me giving up.) If I'm ahead I can have days where I write ten words and feel okay about that. And even though I am ahead, I still feel behind. I really am a strange one.
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