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Tuesday, December 10th
Dec. 10th, 2013 12:20 pmThe Daily Report
Today's been a slow brain day. I didn't manage to get up before 10 and I'm pretty much still waking up at noon. Unfortunately, I've run short on several of my braining pills and I'm also between major paydays. This could trip me up a bit in the next week or so.
It's also day 2 of the writing cycle. To people who don't do a lot of writing (or who take a fundamentally different approach to it), the idea of devoting a work day to beginning to write a chapter might seem like padding, but a lot of times the hardest part of writing is starting. This can be a motivation/confidence problem, it can be a logistical problem... it's usually a combination of the two. The chapters I was trying to write in 3 days often ended up having the bulk of the writing done on the last day because the second day, the one that was supposed to be writing, was spent trying to find a beginning point or an approach for the chapter that would work.
I think this is probably why I rarely get anywhere when I try to do NaNo... my approach to writing rarely involves marathons so much as periods of contemplation and reflection followed by sprints.
The State of the Me
See above. Physically okay, though.
Plans For Today
I'm hoping to be a bit more clear-headed after lunch. While I'm waiting for the fog to clear, I think I'll spend a good portion of the afternoon doing physical tasks (tidying my rooms, improving my work space, getting the printer set up). When I hit peak writing time around 3 or 4 I'm going to try to tackle the next chapter's beginning, in accordance with the process.
Today's been a slow brain day. I didn't manage to get up before 10 and I'm pretty much still waking up at noon. Unfortunately, I've run short on several of my braining pills and I'm also between major paydays. This could trip me up a bit in the next week or so.
It's also day 2 of the writing cycle. To people who don't do a lot of writing (or who take a fundamentally different approach to it), the idea of devoting a work day to beginning to write a chapter might seem like padding, but a lot of times the hardest part of writing is starting. This can be a motivation/confidence problem, it can be a logistical problem... it's usually a combination of the two. The chapters I was trying to write in 3 days often ended up having the bulk of the writing done on the last day because the second day, the one that was supposed to be writing, was spent trying to find a beginning point or an approach for the chapter that would work.
I think this is probably why I rarely get anywhere when I try to do NaNo... my approach to writing rarely involves marathons so much as periods of contemplation and reflection followed by sprints.
The State of the Me
See above. Physically okay, though.
Plans For Today
I'm hoping to be a bit more clear-headed after lunch. While I'm waiting for the fog to clear, I think I'll spend a good portion of the afternoon doing physical tasks (tidying my rooms, improving my work space, getting the printer set up). When I hit peak writing time around 3 or 4 I'm going to try to tackle the next chapter's beginning, in accordance with the process.