- Visiting my mum.
Procrastination undertaken:
- Watching tv, doing the washing-up, eating. You know, life.
Writing music used:
The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on 6 Music.
Important Writing Creative Decisions taken:
- Allowing one of the character's story-lines to lie dormant for a few chapters while I followed the other one.
- To go back and delete a flash-forward I had written as it just wasn't going to work, and I was trying to skew the story in its direction, rather than letting it flow.
Important Realisation:
- That the concept of an 'Ivory Tower' for writing - a particular space, using a particular chair, and an uninterruptable block of time - which I had thought was necessary, isn't. In the last week I have taken my netbook (a new computer, not my usual 'writing' one) to a number of locations, and written equally easily in each of them. I have also written in tiny blocks, sometimes as small as 10 or 15 words between interruptions, and have still found that the story flowed.
- That a structure for writing is a wonderful thing. I have been more productive in the last 13 days than in the last 2 years.
- That my remaining wordcount for NaNoWriMo success - 21,667 - is the same as the amount I should have written by today. That feels significant but probably isn't.
Daily goal: 1,667.
Today's actual amount (according to Nano): 2,554.
Today's cumulative word goal: 21,667.
Today's actual total (according to NaNo): 28,333.
Chocolate treat to be eaten:
- Oreos.
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