alexandraerin

THE DAILY REPORT

I'm starting today with about ~2400 words of the chapter that's due today finished, which is a great feeling. I also have ~3000 words of an erotic novelette I think I'll be able to sell. I wrote a ~1200 word introduction to the short story "By Half Measures" that I will probably ultimately not keep but may break down for parts anyway.

All in all that's a pretty productive day, and this was with someone else home and actually in the room with me while I was working for part of the time. This is what my timed writing does for me when I'm rested and feeling pretty good.

I am falling into some fairly Pavlovian territory with this, with regards to the timer... a couple of times I've found it nearly impossible to write without having my phone on hand and starting the stopwatch app. I think the benefits are worth a little Magic Feather Dependency, though I'm going to try mixing things up a couple of times a day (writing without a timer, writing with a different timer) just so I don't get too dependent.

STATE OF THE ME

Another night of pretty good sleep at a reasonable hour, aided and abetted by the cold snap arriving a day earlier than I thought it was due. A big part of my current problem is that while the house was so overcrowded it was impossible for me to keep to any schedule for sleep, which makes melatonin pretty useless. Having a few nights in a row of "easy mode" sleep is going to go a long way towards helping me get a cycle going.

DREAMS FROM LAST NIGHT

Well, let's see. At one point I dreamed I was being walked to school on my last day of high school by my mother. Then I dreamed that I was in a house being shaken by the wind and when it suddenly stopped I was convinced that the house was no longer moving back and forth with the wind because it had been picked up and any instant it would be dashed against the ground and I would probably die and I was trying to figure out if I had time to get to my phone and call Jack or my parents before I died. (This one might have been influenced by the fact that the howling wind is really audible in the little alcove where I sleep.) The biggest part of my dreaming, though, involved a fantasy world that operated on a mixture of rules from D&D, MMOs, and various older console RPGs. Like, wizards cast spells using rune-based menus that popped up in the air in front of them.

PLANS FOR TODAY

My afternoon is going to be slightly abbreviated, so I'm going to do an hour on my new novelette, and then finish the chapter that's due (I'm putting myself down for two hours of that, though it could be done sooner than that), and then time allowing I'll do another hour of something else.