Thursday Wordcount

[rj_anderson]

I worked on Touching Indigo for over three hours today, and this is what I have to show for it:

543 words.

But I am reasonably pleased with those words, and would not be ashamed if anyone were to see them, so that's some consolation. I even managed to salvage a few lines of the too-hasty 50,000 words I wrote in April, which gives me some hope that not all of that effort will be wasted.

Comments

[olmue.livejournal.com]

Hey, sometimes I work that long for a handful of words I don't want anyone to see! So I think that sounds great!

[lizvogel.livejournal.com]

Well, it makes those of us who write at the speed of slug feel a little better, if that's any consolation.

Which I suspect it isn't. But still.

[erinbow.livejournal.com]

You wrote 50,000 words in a month?

I my have to off myself out of shame.

I try for 250 words a day on my fiction, and often don't manage that. 500 odd words sounds like a bang-up writing day to me.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Yes, I wrote 2000 words a day, six days a week, during April. But I burned myself out, came close to hating the book I was working on, and ended up with a lot of words I'm not pleased with and don't even feel like looking at again, let alone using. Now I've started the same book over again and am enjoying it a great deal more -- but it's very different from the old version.

If there's anything I learned from that experience (and even that was a comedown from the method I was supposed to be using, which mandated 20 pages a day) it's that wordcount isn't all that matters, and that productivity takes many forms...