Day of Words: 9:25 am
Good luck! I can confirm that 5k a day is definitely achievable, and with quite reasonable quality results. On the last couple of days of Lotus, I managed an average of 7k - mind you, I knew exactly what I had to write by that point.
By Andrew Shellshear, at
9:49 AM
Yeah, that's where it all falls over, of course. I still don't know where I'm going or what's going to be waiting for me when I get there. It's like navigating in a country where you can't read the maps or road signs.
"It's like navigating in a country where you can't read the maps or road signs."
Coz I'm lazy and stupid.
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Okay, this is it. No more messing around. This novel's getting done by the Olympic Games opening ceremony. I'm still not sure exactly what date that is, but it's less than two weeks now, so this is pretty much the last minute I've been waiting for.
I've spent the last two days at a project management training course, confirming all my worst suspicions about how lackadaisical I am at planning anything. This novel is a case in point. I did no planning for it, and as a result it's a meandering collision of unmotivated characters and the sketchiest of settings, punctuated at odd intervals by pointless acts of violence, stupidity and cruelty. Be that as it may, I'm going to finish the damn thing before I put it away for a while, and not just because I have a bet with Evan that involves painful acts with fish scales (or something).
I'm taking the day off work (still nothing progressing there in any case, as I learned on the phone a few minutes ago) and I'm going to type. The goal is to do 5000 words for the day. I'm not sure that's realistic, although I suppose technically it is at least possible. We'll see. I'll post updates whenever I get stuck or bored or I feel like I need a break. It's likely that that will happen often.
Coffee's brewing. Fingers are just about warmed up. Time is now 9:35 and the current word count is a shade below 74,000. I'll just upload this to Lexifab and then I'm hitting the book.
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Another place where I'm obviously struggling is taking frequent breaks to update the blog about how poor my progress is. But I like to live la vida ironique.
if i didn't know you better, i might have thought that was some kinda sly dig at me... hey, wait-a-minute...
& why are you reading this comment when you should be typing, hmmm?
And I was actually thinking of Simon in Scotland, but I may have to withdraw the analogy...
