Aug 172012
Every now and then, you have those days.
The majority of the time when you’re writing–or at least, when I’m writing–you find yourself struggling to get even a few lines written. I have days where I have a plan in mind, yet find myself looking at that blank page for quite a long time. Sometimes I manage a paragraph or two and call it quits, telling myself that at least I wrote something. NaNoWriMo is a challenge because of that goal of getting somewhere between 1600-2000 words per day in order to make it on time. With an early enough start, maybe I can do it.
But like I said, every now and then, you have one of those days where the words just keep flying onto the page. Yesterday morning, I had a plan in mind–I’d had a brainstorm the night before and knew exactly what I wanted to do with the chapter I was on, and I intended to finish that chapter. By afternoon, I still hadn’t started. By late afternoon, I’d gotten the beginnings of my planned events typed out. By evening, I felt satsified with the amount I had written; I hadn’t finished the chapter and didn’t think I could in time, but any day you write 3,000 words is a good day.
By night, I was writing the last word of the chapter, bringing my word count for the day up to around 5,600.
5,600 words in a single day? That makes that the second-best writing day I’ve ever had. The best was a day when I managed to get around 8,000 words written in a day, and that was a section that I had planned out in detail and was quite excited to write.
Now if only I could call upon that sort of writing energy at will… 😉
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