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Apr. 5th, 2011 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinOkay, so I'm done writing for the day. I've written somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 words today. This is in the form of five different flash stories. Some were from ideas I've had bopping around in my head that I've never managed to sit down and write out. Some were brand new prompts. One is just something that popped into my head.
The interesting thing to me is that where I have obviously written more than 3,000 words in a day (I used to consider that my target), I have rarely if ever been able to jump from one idea to another like that in the course of a day.
Two days in a row where something seems to have worked is not yet a conclusive pattern, but it's suggestive, especially as the circumstances of the days are very different. Yesterday I sat down to write a single long story that I'd been planning on writing on that day for most of the last week. Today I sat down with no specific agenda and ended up writing several short stories of varying length. Yesterday I felt sharp and alert. Today I felt foggy and sluggish.
We'll see how the rest of the week goes. Tomorrow is going to largely be a Technical Stuff day. Thursday I'm planning on writing Friday's chapter... my housemate's day off is Friday and since I work better when I'm alone in the house I'm going to try to avoid doing any major writing on it. Plus side for everybody else: if the story's done Thursday, I'll post it before I go to bed (i.e., after midnight on Friday.) Thursday is my traditional archnemesis when it comes to days of the week and accomplishing things. If I can have a repeat of Monday's awesomeness on Thursday, I think I'll be in good shape.
The interesting thing to me is that where I have obviously written more than 3,000 words in a day (I used to consider that my target), I have rarely if ever been able to jump from one idea to another like that in the course of a day.
Two days in a row where something seems to have worked is not yet a conclusive pattern, but it's suggestive, especially as the circumstances of the days are very different. Yesterday I sat down to write a single long story that I'd been planning on writing on that day for most of the last week. Today I sat down with no specific agenda and ended up writing several short stories of varying length. Yesterday I felt sharp and alert. Today I felt foggy and sluggish.
We'll see how the rest of the week goes. Tomorrow is going to largely be a Technical Stuff day. Thursday I'm planning on writing Friday's chapter... my housemate's day off is Friday and since I work better when I'm alone in the house I'm going to try to avoid doing any major writing on it. Plus side for everybody else: if the story's done Thursday, I'll post it before I go to bed (i.e., after midnight on Friday.) Thursday is my traditional archnemesis when it comes to days of the week and accomplishing things. If I can have a repeat of Monday's awesomeness on Thursday, I think I'll be in good shape.