I’ve been reading more erotica. Fell out of practice with my stress levels. Reading is a vital part of writing. You’d think that you’d get full of other people’s ideas, other people’s words and phrasing, but no, it seems to stimulate rather than sate my desire for wordplay.
Planning on writing on Saturday before my big meeting. 
Short update, I know, but more will be forthcoming.
I wrote for 4 hours today.
It was hard.
I remember, back when I wrote more often, sitting for 5, 6, maybe 7 hours, churning out thousands of words. In the first 2 hours of my writing today, I wrote 320 words. Horrible. It was like pulling teeth.
But somewhere in that third hour it started coming back. My main character decided to do something unexpected, and then I realized that he was going to be walled up alive in a honeycomb (makes sense in context) which is HORRIFYING to me, but it’s what the story was doing. I love this, being pulled along by a story, dragged down dark alleyways I hadn’t noticed. Sometimes something magical happens there. Sometimes I’m mugged and they steal my kidney (metaphorically speaking).
Near the end of hour 4 I let myself get interested in the outside world, and slowed to a stop. Got around 1400 words today.
Nothing like in my hayday, when I cranked out 12-13k words in an evening. But it’s a muscle, and I’m horribly flabby right now.
For RoW80, I met my goal.
This isn’t an excuses post, it’s a “all the things I like to do in my spare time” post.
In no particular order:
So, out of those, I will try to cut back MOST on playing video games and random web-browsing to give myself writing time. I just need to manage to get my ass in gear when I actually have home time to write.
Why don’t I write in between calls at work? Well, I’m sure my job would frown on me writing sex scenes on company time. Also, being interrupted is annoying when you’ve got two characters riled up and ready to go.
Coitus interruptus is no fun for anyone.
My goal for this round is to write for at least 4 hours a week on Dream Honey. That does NOT include reading time, research time, lollygagging, internet browsing, twittering, blogging, whining, bitching, or procrastinating. Just writing. It most definitely doesn’t include editing what I have already written.
4 hours is pretty damn tame, self. You can do 4 hours.
And if you can do 4 hours 2 weeks in a row, you’ll push it to 5 hours.
Don’t whine, you play more City of Heroes than that in 3 days. You have the evenings, and you’ll have the weekends. Get your ass in the chair, put your headphones on, and write.
… or so help me I’ll put us on a vegan, no wheat, no sugar, no CHOCOLATE diet for a week.
Well, for a few reasons. My life is about to change drastically, again, as I leave a fairly high paying job that I hate for a low paying job I will love. This also means that I will have more energy to devote to the other things in my life that sustain me; writing and crafting.
I found, by accident, a site called Round of Words in 80 Days. It’s sort of like a longer, less stress NaNoWriMo. I love NaNo, have done it for years, but sometimes the pace is just too much.
ROW80 lets you choose your goal. Nifty. And I have a burning WIP, Dream Honey, I need to finish. The only requirement for ROW80 is that you have a blog to update with your progress.
Therefore, I blog.
