7th November 2014
HELLO FELLOW WRITERS!
I am writing this from work, so please forgive me if it's short and sweet. I just wanted to pop in and update y'all on this year's progress. So far, things are going well. I'm not going to say it isn't hard, but despite juggling the jobs and the MA I'm so far managing to stay on target for a 90k month (or, fingers crossed, a finished novel).
This wasn't my original intention, but apparently I can't help myself. And it turns out that having a slightly ambitious goal of 3k a day (rather than days when I write a MILLION words just to catch up) is working wonders. It's like being back at school again, because I have to sneak minutes here and there, write paragraphs on my lunch break, and forego TV watching when I do have an hour spare because WRITINGWRITINGWRITING.
My cheerfulness may well not extend past the weekend, what with another creative writing assignment being due on Sunday night (PLOTTING, AAAAAH), and I've also got my first tutorial with my tutor next week. Scary stuff!
Last night I bought myself a new laptop. Not to panic, my trusty one! It's not a replacement for my current machine, but rather a cheap little (11.6", 1.3kg) top-up I can carry down with me on my weekly trip to London. I found I was missing out on some good writing time having to wait for public computers, or feeling guilty for doing something... less academic? than the law students who often swarm the post-graduate library. =P
So, that's coming on Sunday. I'm freaking out. It's a refurbished machine, so I've saved myself £50 there. I just hope it can do some basic word processing and internet-browsing.
As for my novel, as of this morning I'm sitting at 18k words and, in theory, am on target to hit 21k tonight (unless something crops up). The plot is jumping in fits and starts, which is a bit awkward, but I'm sure I'll get there with it. Characters are great fun, which is all that's getting me through this looong loooong month. ;)
Anyway, time to get back to work. I've spent far more time on this than I should have - but whatever. That's what I get for working in an office with the tempting internet never far away!
I am writing this from work, so please forgive me if it's short and sweet. I just wanted to pop in and update y'all on this year's progress. So far, things are going well. I'm not going to say it isn't hard, but despite juggling the jobs and the MA I'm so far managing to stay on target for a 90k month (or, fingers crossed, a finished novel).
This wasn't my original intention, but apparently I can't help myself. And it turns out that having a slightly ambitious goal of 3k a day (rather than days when I write a MILLION words just to catch up) is working wonders. It's like being back at school again, because I have to sneak minutes here and there, write paragraphs on my lunch break, and forego TV watching when I do have an hour spare because WRITINGWRITINGWRITING.
My cheerfulness may well not extend past the weekend, what with another creative writing assignment being due on Sunday night (PLOTTING, AAAAAH), and I've also got my first tutorial with my tutor next week. Scary stuff!
Last night I bought myself a new laptop. Not to panic, my trusty one! It's not a replacement for my current machine, but rather a cheap little (11.6", 1.3kg) top-up I can carry down with me on my weekly trip to London. I found I was missing out on some good writing time having to wait for public computers, or feeling guilty for doing something... less academic? than the law students who often swarm the post-graduate library. =P
So, that's coming on Sunday. I'm freaking out. It's a refurbished machine, so I've saved myself £50 there. I just hope it can do some basic word processing and internet-browsing.
As for my novel, as of this morning I'm sitting at 18k words and, in theory, am on target to hit 21k tonight (unless something crops up). The plot is jumping in fits and starts, which is a bit awkward, but I'm sure I'll get there with it. Characters are great fun, which is all that's getting me through this looong loooong month. ;)
Anyway, time to get back to work. I've spent far more time on this than I should have - but whatever. That's what I get for working in an office with the tempting internet never far away!
posted by Kitty Taylor at 9:40 am
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