Wasted days, wasted nights?
Jan. 22nd, 2006 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonAfter a great word count (for me) on Tuesday of 2500 words, I did the usual 500 on Wednesday. Then Thursday and Friday were complete washes because of a grand computer kerfluffle at work. I was just trying to deal with the mess on Thursday and didn't take much of a lunch at all, consequently no lunch writing session. The mess was ongoing Friday so I was still dealing with it and stressing. I think I managed half a page! And I'm always too fried by the time I get home at night to be very productive.
Right, I thought, I'll make up for the lack of production on the weekend.
My body had other plans. Yesterday, I felt like something the cat drug in. I thought I might be coming down with that cold everyone's been getting because I had a massive headache and a scratchy throat, body aches and enervation, but no. I just felt crappy. It could be I got a bad dose of synthetic thyroid hormone--that occasionally happens. Or maybe it was just non-specific crud. Although I feel better today I'm still low energy.
However, the upside of crudville yesterday is that while I was laying around doing no writing, I was able to do quite a bit of worldbuilding for Charged with Folly. I had enough oomph to do some reading, and in that synchronicity that often happens to me when I'm coming up with a thematic metaphor, everywhere I turned I ran into more things that reinforced the trend of my thinking--TV shows, novels, seemingly unrelated nonfiction books. So odd.
I don't necessarily attribute anything in this synchronicity to a supernatural agent (although I never reject any possibilities). It's possible that I've been surrounded by these intimations of theme for quite some time and have now passed into a zone of hyperfocus on them. Certainly, the symbol of labyrinths and images of the underworld are not strangers to me. But it never ceases to amaze me how when I decide to focus on a theme, the references begin blooming all around me.
So, wasted days and nights on the writing front, but good progress on the thematic front. And that pesky plot thing, as well.
Because of that remarkable Tuesday, though, I still managed to come up with my average weekly word count of between 3000-4000 words. Not a staggering word count and I'm trying to up that, but it's steady and reliable, week after week.
Right, I thought, I'll make up for the lack of production on the weekend.
My body had other plans. Yesterday, I felt like something the cat drug in. I thought I might be coming down with that cold everyone's been getting because I had a massive headache and a scratchy throat, body aches and enervation, but no. I just felt crappy. It could be I got a bad dose of synthetic thyroid hormone--that occasionally happens. Or maybe it was just non-specific crud. Although I feel better today I'm still low energy.
However, the upside of crudville yesterday is that while I was laying around doing no writing, I was able to do quite a bit of worldbuilding for Charged with Folly. I had enough oomph to do some reading, and in that synchronicity that often happens to me when I'm coming up with a thematic metaphor, everywhere I turned I ran into more things that reinforced the trend of my thinking--TV shows, novels, seemingly unrelated nonfiction books. So odd.
I don't necessarily attribute anything in this synchronicity to a supernatural agent (although I never reject any possibilities). It's possible that I've been surrounded by these intimations of theme for quite some time and have now passed into a zone of hyperfocus on them. Certainly, the symbol of labyrinths and images of the underworld are not strangers to me. But it never ceases to amaze me how when I decide to focus on a theme, the references begin blooming all around me.
So, wasted days and nights on the writing front, but good progress on the thematic front. And that pesky plot thing, as well.
Because of that remarkable Tuesday, though, I still managed to come up with my average weekly word count of between 3000-4000 words. Not a staggering word count and I'm trying to up that, but it's steady and reliable, week after week.
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