Hey guys!
Thanks so much for all of your awesome suggestions of things that can get me out of my blog rut! I’ll be going utilizing those suggestions very, very soon I’m sure!
In other news I decided to blog about writing GG3 because I knew you guys would get a kick out of that.
Now, I’m not blogging ABOUT GG3–that would be cheating. Of a sort. But instead I’ll blog about writing. A fairly typical day of writing, to be exact.
10:00 turn on Alphasmart.
10:05 look at little, tiny Alphasmart screen, expecting words to magically appear
10:22 words have STILL not magically appeared, so my body starts trying to type some
10:30 can’t type to save life, so get up and go eat some wheat thins instead
10:45 body is now capable of typing adequately so it types a little
10:46 check to see how many words you’ve typed so far: 42!
11:05 decide that it’s close enough to lunch time to eat something.
11:46 check word count again: 512!
12:20 have momentary panic attack when you realize that your book is bad. So terribly, utterly, supremely bad that you’re going to have to change your name and leave the country!
12:22 have momentary panic attack when you realize that your book is good. So extremely, monumentally awesome that no future book that you will ever write will ever compare with its awesomeness and you must therefore change your name and leave the country!
12:24 start wondering where your passport is and spend the next hour and a half looking for it
3:00 get into a scene that you really like. Write 1,200 more words!
3:47 what did I do with those Wheat Thins?
3:49 what do I have in the ice box that goes well with Wheat Thins?
3:52 ooh, I have dip in here! I love dip!
3:58 sit down to write with dip and Wheat Thins
3:59 do I have any Diet Sunkist?
4:14 Yum. Orange pop is fun!
4:19 Start writing a really crappy scene
4:20 is this scene not over yet?
4:21 check word count: 19!
4:22 oh my gosh, could this scene BE more boring?
4:23 word count: 21!
5:05 word count: 27!
6:20 oh heck–I’ve got to cut this crappy scene!
6:21 What did I do with those Wheat Thins?
Word Count Progress
