Beth -- Going to bed
At 6686 words.
On the bright side, it is almost exactly 1000 words from when Susan told me to write 1000-1500 words before going to bed.
On the not-so-bright side, it's still a little more than 3000 words below the daily goal. They're also not words I'm especially thrilled with. The last scene I wrote was a sex scene and I hadn't been intending to go there. In fact, I was actively planning on avoiding that. But I did a sex scene. And even that I struggled with a bit. I was just getting into that when the text message exchange I talked about in my other blog took place. I was in a very much not good headspace prior to that, but then I was cheered up and was able to at least finish the scene without too much trouble.
I don't like the scene over much, but I do like that it's done. I'm going to go to bed now. I hope, before falling asleep, to come up with a bit of direction for tomorrow's writing. I might even try to put together something of an outline tomorrow morning before I start producing words. I just feel like I need to have direction and then I might stand a better chance of getting things done.
I like my characters. I like my concept. I like what I know of my plot, and only wish I had more details about it. There are enough "I like"'s in this paragraph that this piece should be going somewhere good. And yet it's been such a struggle. Hopefully over the next two days I am able to utilize the potential that I feel my premise etc is working with, and maybe I can even catch up on the word count.
Incidentally, last time I wrote this contest I went to bed after the first day approximately 3000 words ahead of schedule. This year I'm going about 3000 words behind schedule. Well. There's a nice mirror there. Considering I didn't actually win last time, maybe this apparently negative inverse will actually work in my favour?
Good night.
On the bright side, it is almost exactly 1000 words from when Susan told me to write 1000-1500 words before going to bed.
On the not-so-bright side, it's still a little more than 3000 words below the daily goal. They're also not words I'm especially thrilled with. The last scene I wrote was a sex scene and I hadn't been intending to go there. In fact, I was actively planning on avoiding that. But I did a sex scene. And even that I struggled with a bit. I was just getting into that when the text message exchange I talked about in my other blog took place. I was in a very much not good headspace prior to that, but then I was cheered up and was able to at least finish the scene without too much trouble.
I don't like the scene over much, but I do like that it's done. I'm going to go to bed now. I hope, before falling asleep, to come up with a bit of direction for tomorrow's writing. I might even try to put together something of an outline tomorrow morning before I start producing words. I just feel like I need to have direction and then I might stand a better chance of getting things done.
I like my characters. I like my concept. I like what I know of my plot, and only wish I had more details about it. There are enough "I like"'s in this paragraph that this piece should be going somewhere good. And yet it's been such a struggle. Hopefully over the next two days I am able to utilize the potential that I feel my premise etc is working with, and maybe I can even catch up on the word count.
Incidentally, last time I wrote this contest I went to bed after the first day approximately 3000 words ahead of schedule. This year I'm going about 3000 words behind schedule. Well. There's a nice mirror there. Considering I didn't actually win last time, maybe this apparently negative inverse will actually work in my favour?
Good night.
posted by Bethany @ 12:30 AM
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