Words By The Thousands
I did it in January, I'm trying to do it in March. 50,000 words, 31days. You can see why I skipped February. The math was too hard.
Very simply, it's 1613 words per day on average. Great. As I've already skipped two days, I'm already trying to make those up, to get theaverage back to 1613. The first 500 are easy. The next 1,000 are tough, but around 1,500 words, the roll really begins because you look at the clock and go, hey, there's still 4 hours in the day, and I'm basically done. Just 100 more words. Next thing you know, 2,000 or more. That was Monday's writing.
The other way to make something like this work is to write in more than one story. This blog, for instance, doesn't count. But I have "The Gift of Magic" for the site, and a personal project tentatively titled "A Clone to Loan" to work on. "Gift" is serious, epic, Robert-Jordan-esque drama, and "Clone" is Terry Pratchett meets Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut, with a bit of melodrama to color it.
Two distinct styles, a rigid schedule in which to work on (two days of "Clone" for one day of "Gift") and the term "writer's block" is removed from this author's vocabulary.
Onward. To work! And better things.
Very simply, it's 1613 words per day on average. Great. As I've already skipped two days, I'm already trying to make those up, to get theaverage back to 1613. The first 500 are easy. The next 1,000 are tough, but around 1,500 words, the roll really begins because you look at the clock and go, hey, there's still 4 hours in the day, and I'm basically done. Just 100 more words. Next thing you know, 2,000 or more. That was Monday's writing.
The other way to make something like this work is to write in more than one story. This blog, for instance, doesn't count. But I have "The Gift of Magic" for the site, and a personal project tentatively titled "A Clone to Loan" to work on. "Gift" is serious, epic, Robert-Jordan-esque drama, and "Clone" is Terry Pratchett meets Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut, with a bit of melodrama to color it.
Two distinct styles, a rigid schedule in which to work on (two days of "Clone" for one day of "Gift") and the term "writer's block" is removed from this author's vocabulary.
Onward. To work! And better things.
posted by Tiger Shnelvar at 3:50 PM
3 Comments:
work as a *better* thing? wait. it's usually the highlight of my day. scratch that.
Ha ha! I was referring, I think, to doing something other than zoning out in front of my computer at home and overanalyzing the quantity of words I need to write every day to reach this goal, which is interminably boring. ^^
i overanalyze everything people say to me. i need to start overanalyzing something else.
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