Just finished my words for the day. The writing hasn't come easy today, but I met my word count goal. That's not too bad. 800 words, I've realized, isn't a lot of words. That's weird, because in non-fiction, 800 words is a lot of words. Enough to cram in interviews, logic, clever zingers, and all of the rest.
Of course, I'm really just writing a glorified outline for now. The hard work will come later, it seems.
I was on a message board earlier and I was reading advice from the pros on how to write a novel. There's a lot of information about how to start a novel, how to format it, how to count the words, etc. I know a lot of this already, but for now, I'm going to ignore all of it. I am still counting my words using the word count function in MS Word, and I'm not using Times New Roman, and I'm not writing 2,500 words a day.
If I had to write 2,500 words a day at this point, I wouldn't be writing any at all. It's too much for me. I have a busy life, especially right now as a lot is going on, and that seems like too high a daily target. It would be debilitating more than it would encourage me to plod on. Or I might do it one day and give up the next.
800 is nice and easy. I'm in no speed competitions here; I really just want to get the story out. 800, my 1%, is a good pace for me and I'm sticking to it.
The reason I'm also not delving into the formatting and the word counts and all that is because that's easy to get into later. I don't want to distract myself with anything that's unnecessary right now so that my entire focus can be on discovering my characters and their stories.
There's a scene I've been avoiding. It's a depressing scene and although I've been thinking about writing for two days now, I haven't. That's my work for tomorrow. That, and another scene that just came to me.
It's pretty amazing. Once you let loose and open those doors to inspiration, it doesn't take much time to come flooding in.
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