Fair enoughs. Another trick I now employ is to write a short sentence to describe what is going to happen NEXT when you've put your pen down at the end of a day.
This could go in the word count thread, but I think it's important to count these meta words as part of your productivity. I does then slow down your productivity later as you replace them, but, for me, at least, if I'm replacing lots of meta-text with text, I'm feeling good about my progress anyway.
This is where a weekly page goal works for me. The goal I have is easily attainable if I write every day, or at least Monday-Thursday (weekends come with variable routines/free time, and Fridays are a non-starter for getting myself to write). But then if I want to give myself a day or two off, that's fine, I'm allowed, but then I have to pick up the slack on other days.
Interesting. I've only recently looked at my word count. It's not numbers I see as goals, but scenes. I have a fairly comprehensive plot worked out ( although remaining open to ideas along the way ) so in this case, I'm filling in blanks, almost like a jigsaw.
I have done this. My current rewrite has 4 chapters completed even if the beginning isn't complete and I'm not quite sure where they fit yet, including the last chapter and epilogue. I have found it can help guide you along for earlier chapters, since you have very specific writing targets to reach, as long as you're willing to rewrite sections of them as your story changes. Good luckI think I've found a trick to get past my writing log-jams. In the past I've stuck rigidly to writing in chronological order - certainly I go back to edit and refine, but I'd never leap-frogged to a future scene. It seems obvious now, but I've now realised I am 'allowed' to jump, after watching an interview of an author in which he mentioned jumping ahead to scenes too. I felt a bit guilty when I first did it - it felt like cheating!
I'm in the middle of writing a very long tale and one future scene has been in my head, eating up brain space. I've now written a first draft, so I'm free to write the 'infill' scenes .
tldr - Rules, especially you're own, imaginary ones, are there to be broken.
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I got out 226 words tonight. I'm slowly gaining steam on this thing.
Don't you just love when that happens? I've had it happen once since I started writing again, but I used to routinely hit those numbers back in my prime. Maybe someday, I'll get back there.
Earth logic confounds me.
That’s what she said…?
