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dr_pretentiousToday's output: 1824 words
Current total: 6364 words
Current deficit: 1971 words
Not bad, for week 3 of the Mystery Headache.
In the first two days of November, all my writing attention went into conference stuff. Since then, I've been chipping away at that deficit. Through Monday, I'll probably fall behind again--what with six hours of teaching, Tai Chi, and a visit to my perplexed doctor--but I can reasonably expect to be caught up by the end of the week.
Today, my protagonist finally defected. I've played that defection scene probably a few hundred times now in my head, in maybe a few dozen variations. The handy thing about having an obsessive turn of mind is, by the time I sit down to write a scene, I've already been revising it, ripping it out, and revising it again, usually for weeks, often for months. I don't know if this scene's any good yet--sometimes they're not, even after all that--but there are a lot of worse ways to write it that didn't land on the page.
Current total: 6364 words
Current deficit: 1971 words
Not bad, for week 3 of the Mystery Headache.
In the first two days of November, all my writing attention went into conference stuff. Since then, I've been chipping away at that deficit. Through Monday, I'll probably fall behind again--what with six hours of teaching, Tai Chi, and a visit to my perplexed doctor--but I can reasonably expect to be caught up by the end of the week.
Today, my protagonist finally defected. I've played that defection scene probably a few hundred times now in my head, in maybe a few dozen variations. The handy thing about having an obsessive turn of mind is, by the time I sit down to write a scene, I've already been revising it, ripping it out, and revising it again, usually for weeks, often for months. I don't know if this scene's any good yet--sometimes they're not, even after all that--but there are a lot of worse ways to write it that didn't land on the page.
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Date: 2006-11-06 04:32 pm (UTC)How well I know it. I had most of the first chapter memorized when I sat down to start writing on the 1st. The flip-side, however, is that now that I'm writing the 9th chapter, even my outline is not that well developed and everything I write is a surprise to me. It's going into a chapter with just one idea of what happens that day and trying to paint it in an interesting enough way that it doesn't sound like I'm describing each step on a staircase with incredible detail.
Hope you get an answer to that headache soon. Just remember Schwartzenegger's immortal words from Kindergarten Cop: "It's not a tumor!"