Weekend Wordcount

[rj_anderson]

I usually take one day of the weekend off -- generally Sunday, but this week it was Saturday -- so:

302 words.

I think a big part of my problem is that my heart is still very much with Touching Indigo and my mind keeps gravitating to that story and characters instead. I suspect it's going to take me at least another week of hard slogging on Wayfarer before my backbrain starts spitting out stuff about teenage existential crises and faeries in peril instead of emotional repression and synaesthesia.

I also think that a bit more authorial self-discipline would help. Temptation Blocker is a wonderful program but I still have to turn it on the moment I get some writing time, instead of telling myself, "Oh, I'll just check e-mail and my f-list before I start..." and fifty minutes later I'm already tired of staring at the screen and my head is too crowded with random factoids to focus.

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[megburden.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I'll just check e-mail and my f-list before I start..." and fifty minutes later I'm already tired of staring at the screen

I do that. For me, it helps (a little) that I write on a laptop without internet access, so, if I want to remove temptation, I can go in another room and not even look at the desktop computer with its shiny internet. Even so, I often find myself stopping after writing a sentence and saying, "Oh, I could just go take a quick break and check my email..." and then a quick break becomes half an hour...

Would it help to reward yourself with Touching Indigo? I mean, if you promise yourself that you'll write Wayfarer five days out of the week, or meet X wordcount goal, you could devote your other writing day to working on TI. Or would that make you too scattered?

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I don't think I can write two books simultaneously, much as I wish I could. It's taken me two weeks to shift my brain from Indigo to Wayfarer and only now am I really starting to get ideas for the latter instead of the former. Trying to keep two books in my head at once would break my poor brain, I think!

But my agent really likes Indigo and thinks that I have plenty of lead time to work on Wayfarer, so I am now torn between the two. I think I'll try to finish at least up to Chapter Three of Wayfarer before I decide, though.

[elizabethcbunce.livejournal.com]

Oh, this all sounds *so very* familiar!! I am having a h*ll of a time finding my rhythm for STARCROSSED (so much so that I started a NEW book today! What's wrong with me?!)... but I know that once it hits, I'll be in the groove and won't be able to stop for a couple of months. It's just... where *is* that groove, already??

(Like Meg, I work on a laptop with no Internet. Unfortunately, it *does* have other WIPs, Free Cell, and Windows Media Player [and you know I'm procrastinating when a non-music-person like me starts fiddling with her playlists...])