5K words on Blessing, that is. After a brief pause to write this update and check my mail, I’m going to get back to it. I easily have 45 minuts of quiet time tonight, and really more if I want to push it.
Looking more promising that I’ll finish it on time. I do have a week of vacation that starts over the last few days of submission, so that should help if I need a last minute push.
I’m hoping it doesn’t come to that, but it’s at least a little help waiting if I do need it.
Had a breakthrough on something that had me stalled on Blessing of the Wood. I was having trouble with the motivation for things that were going on, and the idea hit me out of the blue yesterday at work.
I’ve incorporated it into what I already had written and moved forward. I’m closing in on 4k words now, and going strong.
Always good, when you have both a deadline and a tradition looming over you. Hope to have more to report later this evening.
I had to put all my writing aside for a few days. When I hit one of those points where the words just don’t come, I get frustrated, and that makes it even harder, and it snowballs. So, I closed Wordperfect, the cover images, maps, and everything else, and relaxed for a while.
Opened things back up yesterday, and I’m moving forward on the Earth Day story, now retitled “Blessing of the Wood”
It’s flowing — thankfully — so I hope I’m back on track. Up to 3k words.
Fighting a motivation slump. I’ve puzzled my way through several sticky points that had drawn me up short across the stories I’m working on, but when I open up one of the documents to actually write, I’m just not feeling it.
I can muse on the story, get excited about it, but when I open Wordperfect, the words just don’t come.
It’s frustrating — especially with an important deadline looming.
All I can do is try every day.
