Weekly Word Counts MMM: 702 KITD: 409 TBS: 405 Total: 1516 Difference from last week: +569 Editing hours: 0.5 Well, that’s better, at least. Especially considering I only wrote three days this week. I spent too much time thinking though, and not enough time actually writing, clearly. But at least it’s progress. I’m pretty happy […]
The Writer's Desk
Writing, publishing & marketing notes from Jamie DeBree & her alter egos
Category: Writer’s Notes
Weekly Word Counts MMM: 169 Editing hours: 0 Well then. Clearly I’m headed in exactly the wrong direction, but it’s been a weird week and I lost my focus early on and never got it back, for various reasons. I’m also overthinking the whole craft side of things again, which is causing me to seize […]
Weekly Word Counts MMM: 481 KITD: 466 TBS: 0 Total: 947 Difference from last week: -528 Editing hours: 0 As you can see, I’ve had some…uh…focus issues this week. I finally figured out Friday that the herbal remedy I’m taking to break up gallstones is affecting my hormones, which affects the way I think – […]
Weekly Word Counts MMM: 742 KITD: 264 TBS: 469 Total: 1,475 Difference from last week: +412 Editing hours: 2 Well then. From the looks of those numbers, I’m finally headed in the right direction, which is “up”. Eventually I’d like to be writing 4-5k words per week, total (that’s pretty much all I have time […]
Word Counts MMM: 856 KITD: 207 Total: 1,063 I know it’s been a long time, but I have a new daily/weekly writing schedule, and the plan is to stick to it, and then update the blog on Friday nights. It’s late, I’m tired, and I want to go to bed, so a short post to […]
I feel like I’ve reached a major milestone as a writer tonight. I’m a little over 23k words in my current novel draft, and I’ve decided to start over. As in, completely rewrite it, from scratch. Since I started the draft, I’ve been feeling like something’s not right. The tone is off. The vibe I’m […]
Weekly Word Counts MMM: 1,452 TL: 498 TPR: 0 Poetry: 0 The Dry Rain (editing): 0 National Novel Writing Month ended last week, after I’d already thrown in the proverbial towel a week before. I used to be willing to do whatever it took to win, but these days, my health is just too important […]
Weekly Word Counts Novel draft: N/A Short prose: (too lazy to add it up…next week?) Poetry: N/A Editing hours: A few? No post last week due to…new bookshelves! Hooray for new book storage! Progress is happening, slowly but surely…not that you’d know it by my word counts, eh? Part of my progress for the past […]
Weekly Word Counts Novel draft: 0 Short prose: ? Poetry: N/A Editing hours: 0 This week’s been a little hit and miss for writing, due to my trying to get more sleep and having to rearrange my writing schedule in order to do that. I have gotten some new words down, obviously, but not nearly […]
Weekly Word Counts Novel draft: 0 Short prose: 2,105 Poetry: N/A Editing progress: none The novel draft count probably won’t go up much this month, as my goal is to edit the novel drafts I have done, and then start a new one for NaNoWriMo on November 1st. I will count any new words written […]