381. Manuscript total: 73,828. There’s a reason that you didn’t see a progress report from me yesterday… I didn’t write anything. It was one of those mornings when I got busy doing other things and told myself I would write later. Then I had a doctor’s appointment, then I started Read more…
894 words today, 73,447 total for the manuscript. Not quite at the halfway point yet. (Sigh.) Today is the last day of classes for the first term of my grad program, and man alive am I busy. I’m about 98 percent finished with my final project for today’s class, but Read more…
1,102 words. Manuscript total: 72,553. Back in May, after drafting over 75,000 words, I decided I didn’t like what I had written and threw away everything to start over again. It’s taken me three months, but I’m finally almost back to where I was. You might be wondering, did I Read more…
Just for the record, “ophthalmologist” is kind of a hard word to spell. 465 words today, 71,451 total for the manuscript. Not a lot, I know. Yesterday, I didn’t manage to get any homework done, and I have a huge project due today and another one due on Monday. So Read more…
1,345 words today. 70,986 total in the manuscript. You might be looking at that number and wondering why it’s so much higher than all my other numbers for the week. There’s a reason for it: I accidentally tricked myself. A while back, during the last stint of determined productivity I Read more…
After an early morning run, which included an encounter with a tarantula and a rattlesnake (read the whole story here on Facebook), a little bit of arm-wrestling with my web host, and some good old-fashioned procrastination, I wrote 895 words. Manuscript total: 69,641. Here’s a sentence: The Zaris Mountains were Read more…
615 words today. 68,746 total. Third day of regular progress reports. Sick of them yet? I got a little stuck this morning and had to spend too much time looking back at my outline, which I found anemic and unhelpful for this particular section of the novel, so it was Read more…
626 words this morning. Better than yesterday, but fewer than what I was hoping for. Manuscript total of 68,131 words. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Pablo Picasso Ah, this human life. When born into all the privileges we have in Read more…
430 words this morning, which isn’t a lot but it’s not shabby for a half-hour’s work. Manuscript total of 67,505. Yesterday, I shared with LT the High Performance Indicator test I came across as a result of the book I’m currently listening to (High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard). Because Read more…
I’m sorry! It wasn’t that I forgot that I’d promised to post every Wednesday. It was that I literally did not have time. I know, I know, “I don’t have time” is the most common excuse for a dropped ball EVER, but in this case, I literally did not have Read more…