Sounds easy, right?
Sometimes, I guess it is. Today, not so much. I've never had such a hard time squeezing out ten pages. I kept starting to stand up and then dropping back into the chair, remembering I promised myself ten pages today.
I'm drawn to this vampire story for some reason. Its a little outside my usual writing, but its like exploring a new land. I want to see where its going to go. The ten pages today were torture. I finished about 3 o'clock. Not too bad overall but the writing was hard. I counted every minute, every word, every page.
Then I finished editing the first 100 pages of another book. Tonight I'll print out another 100 pages and edit that between other working on other stuff.
I decided to start setting goals from reading Zoe Winters' site. She does word count each day and she's fairly prolific.
help?
That's Hemingway's cat cemetery. -->
He really did love his kitties.
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I doubt I've made ten pages in a day more than 3 or 4 times in my life.
I did a word count goal for awhile, but I found it restricting, since it only accounts for time actually spent writing (not plotting, outlining, or editing). So I switched to a time goal. I spend 45 minutes a day working on some writing task. If that means I spend 45 minutes staring at the blinking cursor on the screen, so be it, but that doesn't usually happen. The only restriction is that I can't spend that time on Facebook or the internet (unless it's actual research) or anything else. I've only been doing it for a month, but it's working pretty well so far.
I'm tried doing the time thing, but I'm finding page/word count more productive for me. It kind of ties me to the desk and I get more done.
When I did time I think I spent more time day dreaming. lol
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