You know what they say about the road to Hell, right? Yeah, well I had oodles of good intentions yesterday. The weather was lousy. I didn't have anywhere I had to be or anything pressing I needed to do. I had a whole glorious day I could devote to writing.
What did I do? Hey, I've got two of the cleanest bathrooms in town. And I've made a dent in choosing the photos for next year's calendar. I even read a few more pages of the Carolyn Hart mystery I've been trying to finish. Writing? Not as much as I'd intended.
Why? I had all this free time and not a single excuse not to put a couple of thousand words down on the computer screen. What went wrong?
Nothing, that's what. I wrote 887 words yesterday and that's a decent output for me. In addition, while I was cleaning bathrooms and choosing photos and, yes, even while I was reading about Annie and Max, I spent some time thinking about my characters and where they were heading next.
So, even though it didn't look much like writing, I made more progress yesterday than the numbers reflect. I'll take it.
NaNo Day Seven Words: 887
Total NaNo Words: 7427
Sunday, November 8, 2009
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2 comments:
Debbie -- great ideas always come when cleaning. I don't know why. Maybe it's that feeling of getting something done that is relatively mindless and gratifying to complete.
I'm working today -- maybe I need to go clean a bathroom or two....
btw, congrats on surviving the RIF and I love your blog page!
Thanks, Alice!
Yeah, I think it must be the fact that you don't have to think about what you're doing when you clean. Frees the mind to wander!
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