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October 3, 2021
Hard Deadlines – The Climb #953
As expected, today was a bit of a lazy day. I got some words done but it was about the same as I did yesterday where most of the day was taken up with editing.
I’ve somehow given myself a bit of eye strain. I say ‘somehow’ but I think we all know how I did it. Didn’t stop me reading though. Most of this afternoon was spent curled up on the Support Bubble Sofa dipping in and out of comics.
In my great Marvel Mega Read I’m now up to House of M. I’ve read the core ...
October 2, 2021
A Day Of Editing – The Climb #952
Today was a poor writing day. In fact I got very little writing done at all. But far from being burnt out, the reason for the low writing word count was because I was editing.
As if I didn’t have enough projects on the go currently, I found out about an open script submission last week. As I’ve said, I’m not really approaching this with the intention of getting picked up. If that happened, that would be great but I think I don’t have enough experience. But there’s ...
October 1, 2021
Against All Odds – The Climb #951
I was almost certain that I was going to have a crap word count today. Yesterday I managed over 5000 words as part of a big writing push this week. And whenever I have a good day, it’s always followed by a terribly unproductive day.
Well, almost always.
I managed well over 7000 words today, and I could have managed more were it not for a schoolboy error.
One of the things I’m working on this week is a script. Script work is really an activity to learn the craf...
September 30, 2021
A 5000 Word Day – The Climb #950
You know what makes a good day? When you sit down to write your neverending Epic Fantasy novel, get into a real flow, despite having written quite a bit already today, and then look up to find you’ve written over 2500 words in a single session.
My total for the day was around 5000 and I’m quite pleased. As much as I’d like a 10,000 word day, I think 5000 is around my limit before there’s a danger of quality slipping. Although, that said, doing those sorts of nu...
September 29, 2021
Word Count Week – The Climb #949
Word count week is going pretty well considering that today should have been a trainwreck of a day. I got a lot of work done early, which meant that when I lost a couple of hours to playing New World later in the day, I didn’t eat into my writing time.
The Accursed seemed to go well today. After yesterday felt like a pure car crash and had me questioning whether I could write, today, I feel I’m upping the stakes. I’m reminded that I’ve been told that I’m really g...
September 28, 2021
Back To The Words – The Climb #948
This week I’m back on the words, and today’s focus has been on word count. Now, let me stress that word count isn’t everything when it comes to writing. It’s perfectly legitimate to sit around thinking. Indeed, working on new stories back in the Spring, a lot of the time my word count was almost non-existent.
But I have a stupid number of projects on the go, to which I’ve just added a script I want to write this week.
So this week is very much about word count.
...September 27, 2021
A Failed Experiment – The Climb #947
Sometimes it’s OK to have an experiment fail.
This past week has been one such experiment. Feeling slightly overwhelmed by writing projects, I wondered if I could ‘trick’ my brain to ignore the stress but continue to write by making the focus on secondary tasks.
I should have known that, given that my secondary tasks weren’t getting done, flipping my primary and secondary tasks would have an impact on my writing.
And so I’ve had a week where I haven’t got a lot of...
September 26, 2021
Priest of Gallows – The Climb #946
For some people, their idea of chilling out is a bottle of wine and a Netflix series. For others it’s a cup of tea and a cigarette.
For me, it seems to be a videogame and an audiobook.
I started Priest of Gallows a few months ago but for some reason, although I was enjoying it, something came along which disrupted my reading. I’m one of those people who if I don’t return to a book within a few days, I lose the thread of the plot or the absorption of the world an...
September 25, 2021
Creation Is Visibility – The Climb #945
At the beginning of this week, I decided to conduct an experiment.
I was finding that by focusing on my writing, secondary tasks (like some household stuff) was just not getting done. And whilst I’ve felt my writing can be a bit of a struggle during the pandemic, the stats show I’ve been pretty consistent across the big picture.
So, the idea was to switch things around. I’d focus on the household items for a week, and see what impact that would have on the writing. I w...
September 24, 2021
Post Pandemic Productivity – The Climb #944
This is proving too much of a lazy week.
The idea behind this week was to focus on some non-writing projects and see if I continued to naturally turn out the words.
I don’t know why – possibly the pandemic or other things – but I’m not very good at automated habits anymore. If I have a structure and a system then, yes, things get done, but without it, everything falls apart.
I’m also wondering if I try to do too much. It feels like my output, writing or otherwi...
