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Morning Pages Entry – January 16, 2014

So here we go again with another writing day. This will be 4 in a row writing another 100+ words on my novel. Yesterday, I did 1500+ words in under an hour. That’s pretty cool. I think the journaling I’ve been doing here has absolutely helped in my writing speed. I think I was doing only about 1200 words per hour, when I was writing the novel a bit over the summer. But 1500 is pretty cool for an our. That means, with a little bit of pushing, I would bet I can get to the 5000 word mark wit...

Morning Pages Entry – January 15, 2014

So, here we are on the day 3 of what will turn out to me my 3 days in a row of writing 1000+ words on the novel. Yesterday I write over 1300 words. Looks like I’ll be aiming for 1400 words at some point today. Didn’t time myself yesterday, which I should have I think. Maybe should aim for 1500 words before I stop today. That would be a good number to hit in under an hour. Although, if I know where I’m ging witih the story, then 2000 words wouldn’t be unreachable withing an hour. I left of...

Morning Pages Entry – January 14, 2014

So, yesterday, I felt a bit like a real writer, as I did a couple of things that a real writer would do. Number 1, and the really important one, was that I wrote. I wrote on my novel for the first time this year. And yes it was a bit of a push, as I felt I had to fight my way through parts of it, but I did eventually write 1121 words. That is a very good thing. Then, secondly, I made myself accountable for it, by publishing it in the 1000 word thread for 2014 on the WritersCafe forum. So,...

Morning Pages Entry – January 13, 2014

Feeling a bit grumpy this morning, likely because there are still people in my space during work hours . . . [personal stuff edited out]. Since Christmas holdiays, I think I’ve had one day where there weren’t people in my space, and it’s sort of getting to me. The rest of this week had better be people free during my work hours, or I’m really gonna be aggravated. I don’t know what it is, but having people around when I’m trying to do some work, specifically something creative, or even per...

Morning Pages Entry – January 12, 2014

Wow, look at me go . . . 40 days and still writing away. If only I could write this consistently on my novel writing. I think I’d actually have a book ready to go to editing or publishing or something, if I had written this many words regularly every day for the novel. Something to think about oh you stubbourn side of Christopher, that won’t put pen to paper so to speak and start writing a bit more. I was thinking of this very thing yesterday, and it occured to me, that I just just change...

Morning Pages Entry – January 11, 2014

Well, felling a little under the weather yesterday and today. Picked up a bit of a cold, both Samantha and I seem to have it. Think we got it from Jessica. Mainly feeling a little groggy, and stuffed up mostly. I’m supposed to be playing squash against Mark today in a challenge match, so this won’t help, but what the hell, if he’s still willing to expose himself to my nasty germs, then I don’t really mind playing. It will be extra tough to hold onto my spot, but the workout will probably...

Morning Pages Entry – January 10, 2014

Well, I’ve decided, that gorging yourself on chocolate after a bad lose in squash league is a really dumb idea. I don’t know what it is inside of me that decides that depression can be resolved by food, but I really wish I could banish it from my body forever. Not only did gorging on chocolate late at night keep me up later, but it also woke me up earlier like 5am feeling very warm and a bit sweaty. Which happens all the time whenever I drink too much or eat too much chocolate. I’m not su...

Morning Pages Entry – January 09, 2014

Feeling a little bit groggy today, this morning, as I always do, whenever my sleep gets interrupted to drive Sam to swimming at 5 am. But, the good news about all that is it’s only for a few more months, then the end comes to that nonsense forever for me. I told Sam, that once she was old enough for her regular drivers license, that I would NOT be driving her to anymore morning practices. She really seems to have no inclination to practice driving, and wasn’t too happy about driving herse...

Morning Pages Entry – January 08, 2014

So here we go, and almost a real back to school day finally, just Jessica is still at home, as her school was cancelled for the day. That’s OK, I supposed as long as she doesn’t suck up too much of my bandwidth with NetFlix for the day. So today, I went to the Gym, and did some weights, and the scale said I was down to 175, which is pretty good, considering, it’s the first weigh in since after the holidays. I think, this may go down in my history as the first Christmas where I’ve actually...

Morning Pages Entry – January 07, 2014

Well, here we are the second day after the official ending to Christmas vacation for the kids, and it seems they’re not going to school today either. Too Cold?!? Apparently, school was optional this morning or something, and they just stayed home. I find that a little bit annoying. One thing about the way I’m trying to work these days, is that I find I need my own space, and I don’t want to have anyone else in that space. Whether it’s people I love or not. So, having the kids home again,...