End of day wrap.
Feb. 7th, 2012 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinOkay, after finding conflicting information from Amazon it turns out that I am able to track the originally wishlist'd computer order, which is going to do a lot to quell my anxiety for the rest of the week. Yeah, not knowing when a new free computer is going to arrive is not exactly the worst problem in the world to have, but writing can be a very mood-sensitive endeavor. That and it helps to know when it's relatively safe to wear headphones and block out the outside world. So that's good.
Today was another pretty middling day, like yesterday. Right around 2,000 words of fiction, plus some newsletter stuff. I actually was home alone for a lot of it, but the first time I opened up a blank document today I stared at it for half of the timer and realized that after (checks) five whole weeks of write, write, write I needed to spend a little time recharging and reflecting.
Don't get me wrong, I am not near to burning out. That's the beauty of this. I end my work day feeling refreshed and revitalized because I am doing the most relaxing and rewarding thing I could do with my time. But no one's a bottomless well of ideas, and so I needed to spend some time today just sort of spacing out and letting ideas come, and also doing a bit of a mental inventory of what's on the table, what I have to work with that I may have been ignoring, etc. So I think it was a productive day even before the word count.
And the word count? 2,000 words is a decent haul for a professional writer.
I'm still not fully satisfied with the Other Tales I wrote, though I posted it. It's decent. It's passable. It gets the job done. It doesn't pop like the other things I've written recently pop. This might be a symptom of the need for recharge, or it might just be the latest exemplar of "They can't all be the best thing ever." I don't think it's bad.
I wouldn't have posted it if I did, even with nothing else to post in its place. It just reminds me of an earlier stage in my writing.
One of the things I decided during my mental inventorying is that I need to start using my free writing time to just start spinning out MUniverse stories, so that I'm not cooking up the OTs from scratch... so when I have one that doesn't sparkle I can save it until it does, or recycle the important information into something else, or use it as a bonus feature or something.
There is no cure for the fact that some stories shine brighter than others, and there is always the little matter of taste... the story I'm least proud of is going to be someone else's favorite.
But I'd like to give myself options.
Anyway, as usual: I had a good day.
Today was another pretty middling day, like yesterday. Right around 2,000 words of fiction, plus some newsletter stuff. I actually was home alone for a lot of it, but the first time I opened up a blank document today I stared at it for half of the timer and realized that after (checks) five whole weeks of write, write, write I needed to spend a little time recharging and reflecting.
Don't get me wrong, I am not near to burning out. That's the beauty of this. I end my work day feeling refreshed and revitalized because I am doing the most relaxing and rewarding thing I could do with my time. But no one's a bottomless well of ideas, and so I needed to spend some time today just sort of spacing out and letting ideas come, and also doing a bit of a mental inventory of what's on the table, what I have to work with that I may have been ignoring, etc. So I think it was a productive day even before the word count.
And the word count? 2,000 words is a decent haul for a professional writer.
I'm still not fully satisfied with the Other Tales I wrote, though I posted it. It's decent. It's passable. It gets the job done. It doesn't pop like the other things I've written recently pop. This might be a symptom of the need for recharge, or it might just be the latest exemplar of "They can't all be the best thing ever." I don't think it's bad.
I wouldn't have posted it if I did, even with nothing else to post in its place. It just reminds me of an earlier stage in my writing.
One of the things I decided during my mental inventorying is that I need to start using my free writing time to just start spinning out MUniverse stories, so that I'm not cooking up the OTs from scratch... so when I have one that doesn't sparkle I can save it until it does, or recycle the important information into something else, or use it as a bonus feature or something.
There is no cure for the fact that some stories shine brighter than others, and there is always the little matter of taste... the story I'm least proud of is going to be someone else's favorite.
But I'd like to give myself options.
Anyway, as usual: I had a good day.