Mini milestone 10k
Week 1 went badly. That was the week the builders I contracted with in April of this year decided to start work. Demolishing and rebuilding a bathroom is noisy work, and there are so many things they want you to look at!
Plus the weather has turned cold and I need warmer clothes. Having been completely unsuccessful in my attempts to persuade HK to do a sweatshirt I spent a morning at the shops on Thursday. Unsuccessfully. I may have to resort to sewing.
The builders didn't arrive on Friday but it did give me the opportunity to try and reclaim some rooms out of the chaos. Functional now, but not perfect. The upshot is that by the end of the week I had barely made 3,000 words.
Friday and Saturday nights we had concerts. Friday night had two really terrible compositions that I shut out of my ears by developing a plot point. A sex scene actually, but it is still an important plot point! Saturday night the conductor was deaf and everything was way too loud, so I did the same thing.
Sunday there was no Scrabble, and with all these sex scenes, er... plot points, fresh in my head I set to work early. I had planned to make pancakes for breakfast but by the time my stomach was growling enough to get me away from the computer it was nearly lunchtime so I scrambled some eggs with leeks.
I planned soup for mid afternoon but then Paul made tea so it was only when he began begging me for food at around 6.30 that I dragged myself away from the computer with 9,000 odd words under my belt. After supper I sat down resolutely and went to 10k.
This brings my daily word count target to about 2084 if I remember correctly. I'd like to get that back down to 1667. Which means I need another productive day today. If I can do it before I have to leave for kookavond. And I need a nap if I'm going to be up that late.
I'm nearly finished the core of the story, the sordid details of which impacted through the centuries. I wonder if I can fit a couple more sex scenes in?
Plus the weather has turned cold and I need warmer clothes. Having been completely unsuccessful in my attempts to persuade HK to do a sweatshirt I spent a morning at the shops on Thursday. Unsuccessfully. I may have to resort to sewing.
The builders didn't arrive on Friday but it did give me the opportunity to try and reclaim some rooms out of the chaos. Functional now, but not perfect. The upshot is that by the end of the week I had barely made 3,000 words.
Friday and Saturday nights we had concerts. Friday night had two really terrible compositions that I shut out of my ears by developing a plot point. A sex scene actually, but it is still an important plot point! Saturday night the conductor was deaf and everything was way too loud, so I did the same thing.
Sunday there was no Scrabble, and with all these sex scenes, er... plot points, fresh in my head I set to work early. I had planned to make pancakes for breakfast but by the time my stomach was growling enough to get me away from the computer it was nearly lunchtime so I scrambled some eggs with leeks.
I planned soup for mid afternoon but then Paul made tea so it was only when he began begging me for food at around 6.30 that I dragged myself away from the computer with 9,000 odd words under my belt. After supper I sat down resolutely and went to 10k.
This brings my daily word count target to about 2084 if I remember correctly. I'd like to get that back down to 1667. Which means I need another productive day today. If I can do it before I have to leave for kookavond. And I need a nap if I'm going to be up that late.
I'm nearly finished the core of the story, the sordid details of which impacted through the centuries. I wonder if I can fit a couple more sex scenes in?
posted by cyberjanet at 12:03 AM
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