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Currently dealing with some timey-wimey weirdness, flipping wildly between ‘Oh I’ve got ages yet, it’s fine’ and ‘a week? ONE WEEK?!’ It’s exhausting, is what it is.
MONDAY
Mondays, I’ve decided, are for reading over my WIP in a coffee shop. This morning I went to a different one and it was LOVELY. I read, had two lattes and a breakfast brioche that I was still eating at almost 5pm back at home, it was huge.
Mostly happy with the WIP, but it’s currently a lot of half-written scenes with few transitions. I tell myself I can just mosey on through, linking everything together, but historically that has not been my strongpoint. Eh, we’ll see.
Oh also over the weekend I was idly pondering how helpful it would be to be able to see my wordcount update in relation to how much I do each day and then I remembered there’s a site for that. Pacemaker allows you to set your writing goal along with a strategy for getting it written. You can choose the days you want to write, whether you want to write the same number of words each day or, for example, start small and increase the wordcount as you go. I’ve gone for starting with a large wordcount and getting lower as I get closer to deadline with lower wordcounts on Mondays cos that’s when I read the work so far.
Setting it all up made me feel instantly better and more in control. I really wish I’d remembered this site existed much sooner.
Words today: 2364 (not as many as I wanted to do or should have done per the Pacemaker schedule, but I’ll make it up tomorrow. I hope)
Added to the playlist: Space Song by Beach House. This was playing in the coffee shop I was writing in this morning and it just sounded like my book to me. So much so that I downloaded Shazam to find out what it was so I could add it to the playlist.
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