Monday, August 19, 2013

Hey Hey. I'm back.
Took Sunday off, as planned.
Writing five days a week is going to have to work if I'm going to have human time.

Today life interrupted as usual. I got to hold my new granddaughter for longer than I should have, but no one cried foul.

Today I edited 20 pages of the Thriller and wrote another ten.
Word count is way below goal: 2299. About half what I was hoping. It might prove to be a little tough to hit it hard after no words for two days. I don't know if I can do anything about that and still have human time, so I guess I'll just have to suck it up and do better.

Next Monday, I will try to anticipate a drag and try to get a lot of words in early, to make it easier to finish up with a nice number.

Dr. Supe and I are worried about getting our edits done on so many words. We're taking two different tacks. She's going to finish her book in progress and then edit it all before hitting the word count again. I'm going to try to edit one book while writing another. We'll see how things end up in a week or so and make adjustments as necessary. It is really hard to give up that word count, now we know that we can do it. But if we can't edit the same number of pages we're writing, we're going to end up with a warehouse full of unpublishable books.

But we're working on it.

I am determined to get at least 20k this week. Tomorrow is a day with nothing scheduled, so I'm blocking it out for writing and editing. Going to bed now, at 2 am, hoping to be up before ten and working. My only problem is I have a young man to keep entertained and his buddy won't be coming for him at all this week. There may have to be some location changes during the day. We'll see.

Hope you're pushing yourself to write, even when you don't want to. These books won't write themselves, right?

WRITE!