Help me, I think I'm falling (January 4)

Words were a struggle again today - partly due to my feeling off, partly due to not knowing exactly what happens next in the story. There is some irony in getting through the holiday season without being sick but feeling it now.

Title: Falling
Words Total: 2,117
Words Today: 523
Reason for stopping: Made word count
Music: Gotan Project

January 3

Another cold day and cold apartment. I wanted to nap more than write but I did make my word count.

Title: Falling (I think that's going to be the final name)
Words Total: 1,594
Words Today: 510
Reason for stopping: Made word count & it's a good place to stop
Music: Unwoman & Gotan Project

Tomorrow's forecast is for warmer temperatures. Perhaps there will be more than the minimum amount of words too.

January 2

Tonight the words came slowly - in part, I think, due to my being tired.

Title: Trapeze (working title)
Words Total: 1,084
Words Today: 515
Reason for stopping: So tired. But I get to put a star on the calendar.
Music: Gotan Project

New Year - New Goals

Welcome to the new year.

One of my goals (I don't use the R word) is to write at least 500 words most days. (I say 'most days' because I don't want to set myself up for failure.) All going well, there will be update posts - most days.

Title: Trapeze (working title)
Words Total: 569
Words Today: 569
Reason for stopping: It was a good place to stop for the night.
Music: Gotan Project

November 1 - NaNoWriMo begins

The last time I successfully completed NaNoWriMo I noticed a pattern. Fridays were my least productive days and Mondays my most. Counter-intuitive to me but I suppose, after the work week, my brain was tired.

This year, NaNo begins on a Friday. For whatever reason, perhaps that I didn't want to start in a deficit, I made my quota.

I'm hoping to see mostly green squares on the calendar. They are very motivating.

My fundraising for the Office of Letters and Light continues. Every little bit helps. I do believe if something like the Young Writers Program had existed when I was a student, I would have started writing seriously much earlier.

Word count - 1,723

Reason for stopping - finished the opening scene and it's getting late

Snippet - None today. Still feeling out the situation.

Soundtrack - Rangers losing to the Storm (sigh)

It's a sign

I can tell my summer was filled with health issues, job stress and mild insanity. Few words written. No blog posts.

I can't promise it will radically change but I have two weeks of vacation coming up - part of the plan is to write. Come November, I'm also taking part in NaNoWriMo. If nothing else, I will try to update word count every day.

I'm also fundraising for NaNo. Take a look at my page if you will: http://www.stayclassy.org/stuarru

Thanks to those who wander by. Hope to see you again soon.

Now that April is done

I did not "win" Camp NaNo this time out. However, I did add 9,000 words to the story and may have had a breakthrough on character motivation. (I've always known what would happen but was missing the key of why? What pushes him over the edge? I think I know now.)

While that percolates, I'm going to work on revising my paranormal romance book. That is May's writing goal.