I can hardly believe the week is over. I have been so absorbed in my writing that I haven't really been aware of much else in the world, as stupid as that can be. As far as the writing goes, yesterday I fell short of my goal of 2000 words. I only managed to get about 800 words written yesterday and I'm having a hard time feeling poorly about it. I started off this week with an incredible push and managed to write about 10,000 words by Wednesday. That is a huge amount. I'm not certain if I'll meet the 50k goal by November 30, but I have every intention of trying like mad. I have never written 100 pages of anything before and so I'm really kind of pumped about reaching the 100 page mark. This by no means indicates that what I'm writing is actually any good. In fact, I have this process in my head that I fully intend to follow. It will require me to finish my rough draft of the book, wait a few months and then revisit it. When I revisit, I fully intend to give it a complete rewrite and then I'll edit that. It seems like a lot of work, but I figure if writing were easy, then everyone would do it.
Dean has been working insane hours and so all this writing has been possible, if he had been home more often, I'm sure I'd have been watching television which is exactly what I was doing last night when I fell 1200 words short of my goal. I'm not too concerned because, when I get on a roll, I can crank out a good 8 pages a day. Not too shabby considering I also have a full time job.
Due to Dean's crazy hours and my obsession with writing, I also managed to drop the ball on Thanksgiving. I'm hosting for the Fruit side and while I had told my mother in law what day and time, I neglected to tell the rest of the family. Dean and I made quite a few apologetic and frantic phone calls last night. I'm sure this will count against me for a while and I probably deserve it. I know how hectic things can get around the holidays and here I am just lollygagging around and figuring everyone will be available when I want them to be. ha!
Work is actually on the downhill slide into final exams. I'm still finishing up a bit of stuff with the AP Biology class and crossing my fingers that everything is going to go as planned with that. I've been slacking off a bit with it lately because I took an entire month off writing because I was constantly slaving away with AP Bio and I figured it was time for me to chill out a bit. No one is looking for anything major from me for a while and I figure I've earned a bit of a break from it.
That's it. That's been my life this week. Writing, work and preparing for semester exams. Yippee.
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So... are you going to tell yet what the book is about?
Not on your life.... but does it make you feel any better to know that you're one of the people who will get a copy of it to read after my first re-write?
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