I am running really late so have to make this a short post. This note is an attempt to entice those of us who write only occasionally, to write regularly. The way it is supposed to work is that you post here, whether you write or not, telling about what is going on in your life. You will feel guilty about saying that you did not write, so the next week, you will open some work in progress so you can report positively. Keep doing that every week and you end up with a good habit of writing every week.
The rules of writing is that if you have to ask if it is writing, the answer is always yes. We don't care how much is written as long as the work is opened up.
As for me, I added ONLY 4 pages to my Waxy Dragon 4 story. Time got in the way. This weekend, my writing partner suggested something that would help the story and thinking about what she said, I came up with a cute solution. I just checked with her and it is a go. The only thing I have to do is to solve the details. I think it will be fun to write about.
I had gone the past couple weeks without coming up with more than a couple story ideas. I have had to dig deeply into the compost pile for something to post. While there were a few gems, several stank as one would expect when one pulls something from a compost pile. Sunday, in a half hour period, I came up with five story ideas! that is always a heady experience. I end up with a compost pile of 35 story ideas in the pile. The top four are fresh.
I am trying to crochet a pig toy. I am starting at the nose and it I cannot seem to get it flat. The way to look at this, is someone trying to create a new creature, possibly from the genetic level, that cannot get the details right on the first step for the whole thing to come out right. Once this first part gets going good, the rest of the creation will flow from there.
As to the question of the week, I can honestly say,
YES I DID WRITE
DID YOU WRITE?
[This message has been edited by rstegman (edited July 18, 2011).]
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Got about 50k words on my newest push to expand one of my older stories. Had a lot of busy days this week doing other things so I didn't get as much written as I would've liked. Have to make it up this week and really push to keep the momentum going.
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Been slow lately...then Sunday the logjam broke and I wrote out five hundred words of the beginning of something...seemed to go well, and I know what's supposed to come next, but I had no time on Monday for a followup session. Busy day. But there's still today...
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As far as new words, I had a horrible week, averaging just barely above 450 new words a day. But, then again, this always happens when I'm in edit mode, which I am to prepare my upcoming WotF story.
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I think I have Novel Attention Deficit Disorder, or N.A.D.D.
Worked in one book, switched to another, then had an idea for a possible WotF entry for this quarter and wrote 5 pages o'er the last two morns.
Unfortunately I'll be traveling the next few days so I'll write nary a word, but when I get back I plan to blitzkrieg my entry so that I may have time to get a reader or two and edit it to oblivion before Sept 30th.
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I'm going to jump on this bandwagon, try for the extra motivation.
I wrote... but not really fiction. I'm enjoying the site 750words.com for the way it helps me do some freewriting every day. But I want to do more fiction oriented work as well.
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I barely wrote. Too hot to take my laptop to work most of the week. And busier than usual. With crits, Wife and me with yard work, with some in door work I won't go into details about.
Ten to fifteen minutes each for two novels. Maybe one short session on a story.
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No. Heck, I haven't written anything or focused on my writing for the past two months. It's felt like my muse decided to take summer vacation--that, or my will to write or brainstorm creatively. And I feel bloated and lazy as a result.
I'd love to write. I'd love to write well. I'd also love to love what I write, but what I've written just doesn't make par with my ideals, and while I know that such is part of life, I don't like the feeling of writing something less than ideal. So I tend not to, and it's killing my motivation.
But I need to write. It's like it's a real need of mine--something that I know I can do if I want to, and as long as I'm not doing it, I feel like I'm being dishonest with myself.
Hopefully my response next week will be different.
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