Still Writing.
Nov. 11th, 2006 12:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupDidn't get as much written in the last two days as I'd hoped. Yesterday I mainly went back and elaborated on some scenes when I realized that the current chapter (which overlaps the previous in time) has events that would have been visible in the other. Mostly I added new stuff, but I had to rearrange and fuss with some stuff to get it to work out. I know, that counts as editing and I should avoid it, but I needed to know how things played out from one perspective before I could write it from the other, so I fixed things as little as possible to let me go on.
Today I spent trying to write a long and introspective section but kept getting distracted by Wikipedia in an attempt to figure out how I was planning to solve the individual plot problems the character was musing over. I've now got one (or maybe two) new scenes worked out and some tentative ideas on how to solve said plot problems, but not as much extra written as I'd liked. I didn't actually fall further behind mind you, I just didn't catch up any of the 4000 or so words I'm behind in my schedule.
Anyway, here's where it sits:
I'm not sure how much I'm going to get written on Saturday as I'll be spending most of the day downtown recharging mental batteries. Sunday I'll probably go to the writing jam though, to see how it compares to just sitting alone at home and typing for four hours. I strongly suspect that the latter is much more productive when I actually sit and write during my writing time. The problem is that its a lot easier to goof off at home. So we have the question of what works better for me: dedicated writing in a sub-optimal environment downtown, or semi-goofing-off writing in my little fortress of solitude. I guess we'll just have to do the experiment to find out.
Today I spent trying to write a long and introspective section but kept getting distracted by Wikipedia in an attempt to figure out how I was planning to solve the individual plot problems the character was musing over. I've now got one (or maybe two) new scenes worked out and some tentative ideas on how to solve said plot problems, but not as much extra written as I'd liked. I didn't actually fall further behind mind you, I just didn't catch up any of the 4000 or so words I'm behind in my schedule.
Anyway, here's where it sits:
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15,169 / 60,000 (25.3%) |
I'm not sure how much I'm going to get written on Saturday as I'll be spending most of the day downtown recharging mental batteries. Sunday I'll probably go to the writing jam though, to see how it compares to just sitting alone at home and typing for four hours. I strongly suspect that the latter is much more productive when I actually sit and write during my writing time. The problem is that its a lot easier to goof off at home. So we have the question of what works better for me: dedicated writing in a sub-optimal environment downtown, or semi-goofing-off writing in my little fortress of solitude. I guess we'll just have to do the experiment to find out.
