6 Weeks vs 6 Weeks

Posted by Jen on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 @ 5:17 pm

So, I realized something today. It has been 6 weeks since I started writing Clash, and I have written a total of 6,000 words. This is kind of ridiculous especially considering I wrote an entire 65,000 word first draft in 6 weeks for my last book. I certainly didn’t expect to do that again, but I also expected to have written more than a measly 6,000 words in that time frame.

Granted, I’ve been researching, plotting, submitting, querying, fidgeting, email checking, etc, but there’s no real excuse here when a lot of it has been due to the fact I just haven’t been writing every day. And when I do, it’s another draft of Chapter 1 or 400-500 words here and there. I think I’ve rewritten Chapter 1 at least five times. And that’s not what I’m supposed to do in first draft phase.

Or I get stuck and only write 6,000 words in 6 weeks.

After all my preaching about writers writing and how the easiest way to do that is to sit down and do it every day to get in the practice and treating it like a job. *sigh* I should be at least a third of the way through it by now which is assuming I didn’t even write 1k per day.

Anyway, this post is to all the readers and blog buddies. If you notice my status bar over there for Clash still stuck at 6k next week, please bug me and tell me to stop being a lazy bum. Actually, if you see it sitting there stalled at any point, send me a nudge because I’m only going to want to beat myself up again if I don’t really get moving on this project. Once again, my goal is to reach 10k by the end of this week.

If, in 6 more weeks, I have written only 12k, I may just have to move on to another novel.

Comments

By WordVixen on September 17th, 2008 at 7:21 pm

How’s this for a threat? If you don’t get to 10k by the end of the week? I’m going to Rick-Roll you. :-D

By JenWriter on September 17th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

Hahahaha. Oh no!

Problem is I actually like that song…

By Jaekaebee on September 18th, 2008 at 3:16 am

Will do… :)

By litrock on September 18th, 2008 at 8:56 am

First draft is a first draft for all parts. It’s sanest to just power through and mark inconsistencies with giant capital letters like ‘THIS IS UNTRUE FIX LATER’ and just keep pushing through. Editing as you go is a quick way to mental collapse, I’ve found.

Your own milage may vary.

By JenWriter on September 18th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

@litrock: Yeah, I’m stopping myself from doing any more editing-as-I-go. Only first draft from now on.

 

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