The end is near
Aug. 13th, 2005 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonI hit 100,000 words on July 13 and on Thursday, I hit 109,000 words at the end of chapter 26.
Wow, 9000 words in a month. And that's taking the weekends off to write other stuff. For some of you, that's not a big word count, but for a crank-it-out writer like me that's a lot of fricking words.
I almost always write my ms. first in longhand. That's so old school it's terrifying, I know, but I got in the habit when I had to sneak into empty offices at lunch to do my main writing of the day. I still sneak into empty offices at lunch to do my main writing of the day, so I'm still writing in longhand. I don't have any problem writing with a computer, and on the weekends can crank words out a lot faster when I use one, and I don't see any difference in quality (or lack thereof). But laptops are a distant dream at this point in my finances and I find I have to get away from my own office space to do the writing or I'm constantly interrupted. Besides, since giving myself one of those overuse syndromes some years back, I have to be very careful about computer setups (i.e., making sure everything is ergonomic) and limiting my time on them. So the longhand lunch break is a good idea since my work days are so computer-intensive. That's why chat and ML's are pretty much a distant memory to me these days, too.
And best: I begin to see the end of the novel looming before me. The threads are coming together, although I feared for a time this month that I'd gone off on a tangent that was going to lead me seriously astray. I'm still not convinced I haven't gotten a little too tricksy for my own good, but so far it seems to be working. I still have no idea how long it's going to take me to finish up, but the end is definitely in sight.
Interesting news tidbit: Looks like I started back with yoga just in time:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050805/ap_on_he_me/fit_yoga_weight
I'm still going, although the teacher is going to be a substitute on Monday, just as I'm getting comfortable with the old teacher. Now I'll have to persuade and cajole myself into going all over again. It's not easy being a wimp.
Quote of the day:
"People moved away from magic all the time, as if the world squished it out of them, stepped on its hem and the people went on walking without noticing that the magic got left behind. But it couldn't be the world doing that...Something about the way people looked at things changed."
—Nina Kiriki Hoffman, A Red Heart of Memories
Irony of the day: Well, okay, over a week ago now. The day after we had to use buckets at work to flush the toilets, this headline popped up on my Onion calendar: Mid-Level Manager Forced To Find Out Who Isn't Flushing The Toilet
Things I thought of blogging about today: About Seasonal Affected Disorder (S.A.D.); about the role of junk food in serotonin crashes; about the benefit of positive routines and of striving for a positive attitude in the midst of the inevitable summer doldrums.
Why I didn't blog it: It seemed like too much trouble.
Book news of the day: I'm currently reading Point of Honour by Madeleine E. Robins and enjoying it immensely. Another good recommendation from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sartorias. I found it in the Mystery section at B&N, although some have found it shelved with Romance elsewhere, or Fiction elsewhere still.
Wow, 9000 words in a month. And that's taking the weekends off to write other stuff. For some of you, that's not a big word count, but for a crank-it-out writer like me that's a lot of fricking words.
I almost always write my ms. first in longhand. That's so old school it's terrifying, I know, but I got in the habit when I had to sneak into empty offices at lunch to do my main writing of the day. I still sneak into empty offices at lunch to do my main writing of the day, so I'm still writing in longhand. I don't have any problem writing with a computer, and on the weekends can crank words out a lot faster when I use one, and I don't see any difference in quality (or lack thereof). But laptops are a distant dream at this point in my finances and I find I have to get away from my own office space to do the writing or I'm constantly interrupted. Besides, since giving myself one of those overuse syndromes some years back, I have to be very careful about computer setups (i.e., making sure everything is ergonomic) and limiting my time on them. So the longhand lunch break is a good idea since my work days are so computer-intensive. That's why chat and ML's are pretty much a distant memory to me these days, too.
And best: I begin to see the end of the novel looming before me. The threads are coming together, although I feared for a time this month that I'd gone off on a tangent that was going to lead me seriously astray. I'm still not convinced I haven't gotten a little too tricksy for my own good, but so far it seems to be working. I still have no idea how long it's going to take me to finish up, but the end is definitely in sight.
Interesting news tidbit: Looks like I started back with yoga just in time:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050805/ap_on_he_me/fit_yoga_weight
I'm still going, although the teacher is going to be a substitute on Monday, just as I'm getting comfortable with the old teacher. Now I'll have to persuade and cajole myself into going all over again. It's not easy being a wimp.
Quote of the day:
"People moved away from magic all the time, as if the world squished it out of them, stepped on its hem and the people went on walking without noticing that the magic got left behind. But it couldn't be the world doing that...Something about the way people looked at things changed."
—Nina Kiriki Hoffman, A Red Heart of Memories
Irony of the day: Well, okay, over a week ago now. The day after we had to use buckets at work to flush the toilets, this headline popped up on my Onion calendar: Mid-Level Manager Forced To Find Out Who Isn't Flushing The Toilet
Things I thought of blogging about today: About Seasonal Affected Disorder (S.A.D.); about the role of junk food in serotonin crashes; about the benefit of positive routines and of striving for a positive attitude in the midst of the inevitable summer doldrums.
Why I didn't blog it: It seemed like too much trouble.
Book news of the day: I'm currently reading Point of Honour by Madeleine E. Robins and enjoying it immensely. Another good recommendation from
sartorias. I found it in the Mystery section at B&N, although some have found it shelved with Romance elsewhere, or Fiction elsewhere still.
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Date: 2005-08-13 04:47 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-08-13 09:30 pm (UTC)I also noticed your default picture, Klimt's Danae. It wasn't a painting I knew until I needed something like it for the artist in our novel to think about.
Your journal is the first time I've ever seen it except when I was searching online. =)
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Date: 2005-08-14 11:44 am (UTC)I love Danae and went through quite a Klimt phase for a time. He did some remarkably sensual work in a time not known for that.
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Date: 2005-08-16 09:08 am (UTC)I'm moving toward magic all the time. I can show you how to do it if you want. I think you would be a good pupil.