And the Work Goes On

I got to the point where I was writing very rarely in the fifth White Dragon Black novel, ‘Backstabbers and Believers’. I would skip days, or write only a couple hundred words. I wasn’t worrying too much because I hadn’t completely stepped away, and was able to write in it on those days I did manage to. I was also working on the edits for the stories in ‘Blondes, Books, & Bourbon’, so I was feeling productive.

I plan on doing some creative rewriting/ editing this afternoon. Taking bits and bites of the three alternative endings for the one short story and blending the best of each into one. This should be a fun challenge but it will only take a couple days at most. The rest of the major edits on the anthology are over now, however.

I have more time on my hands and, although I have other more mundane tasks that need my attention, needed to continue that feeling of getting work done. I decided to try and write more in the B&B everyday. I would love to bring this novel to a close soon, knowing that I have plenty of work ahead of me, as the second novel, ‘Bindings & Spines’ will be in edits with my publisher soon enough.

I started trying to write more each morning without pushing myself beyond the natural flow of my writing, because that always seems to lead to writers block. I have to stay immersed in the scene to write it. A fine balance line but I began the task.

It worked, slowly everyday my daily word count rose. I consider an acceptable minimum daily word count to be 1000 words, and prefer 1500. Three days ago, I wrote 600, the next day 700, and yesterday 800.

I really had thought about skipping doing any writing in ‘Backstabbers and Believers’ this morning. I even knew what the next scene should be, and generally how to write it, but my actual ‘do it’ battery seemed low. I hated the thought of skipping a day after gaining the ground I had though. I made myself write, figuring just a couple hundred words, to make sure I didn’t get lazy or into bad habits.

The flow towards my daily minimum continues with 900 words written this morning.

Nine hundred words. Once more I added a hundred more to my daily word count than the day before. Good thing I can be stubborn with myself, and that my Muse is just as persistent.

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