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Entirely unstarted: 31, 52, 62, 65.
Started but unfinished: 30, 34, 47, 48, 53, 54, 58, 59.

That's two yesterday and two this morning. I'm still in my pajamas. My agenda for the day is lunch with Rachel and book. I could possibly manage to sort the laundry and make a quick library/PO run, but basically, book it is. Book book book. I think I need to add "not book" to the agenda. Some yoga, that kind of thing. Something that will keep me from just going and going and going until I fall over.

Note that Chapter 30 is still not finished. I am so glad I don't write sequentially, it's not even funny. I am trying not to obsess about Chapter 30. The fact that it's the earliest unfinished chapter should mean nothing. It doesn't matter if I finish it next or last. Nobody will judge anything based on that. I could write in reverse order from here on out, and nobody would ever care, or even know if I wasn't telling you. I could draw chapter numbers from a hat, and as long as I wrote them, nobody would care how I picked which one to write next.

Still. It just sits there. And Chapter 34 is looking quite friendly, and then it's a big jump to 48.

Nobody cares, M'ris. Just write.

Date: 2004-10-04 12:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
Not even within this book is "chapters" a very universal measure of work.

Yesterday probably 3 kilowords total. Today closer to 2 so far, though it'll be more by the time I go to bed.

Date: 2004-10-04 12:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] minnehaha.livejournal.com
Nice. My traditional long-term sustained quota is 1000 words/day.

B

Date: 2004-10-04 12:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
I can't sustain more than 1500-2000, but the end of a book makes it easier on me to write than not to write. I'm so close to done at this point that my brain keeps returning to the book when left to wander.

Date: 2004-10-04 12:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] minnehaha.livejournal.com
Fiction and non-fiction are different.

B

Date: 2004-10-04 01:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
Yes, for me, too. I can do more nonfiction in an intense day than fiction, but it wears me out faster. I think this is because I'm fundamentally a fiction writer and just do nonfiction from time to time for the money or "just because."

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