Behind
I’m officially behind on my word count.
Tonight was a dreadful night to try to write. So so tired, plus all the distractions (self-imposed and otherwise) of non-stop phone calls and friend chatting, brings me to a day and a half behind.
I really need sleep, though, since I’m having to go to the polls before work. If I wait until after, I won’t make it. But maybe if I get enough sleep, I’ll be awake enough to get into a nice writing groove tomorrow night.
Good night, all.
Word count: 2852 (goal: 5001)
New inspiration
I have written nothing beyond the initial word count, but that’s okay. I have been so tired and dealing with some RL issues and both are taking my attention from what I need to be doing. Combine that with some ambiguities over the storyline itself, and poof! No writing gets done.
However, I would like to say, THANK YOU DEB and THANK YOU GOOGLE EARTH for some inspiration. Her suggestion of where the initial murder might take place (doesn’t that make you want to read it? huh? huh?) led me to re-download Google Earth, which is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Seriously. I now can see the entire landscape of the murder scene through the eyes of the victim. A 3D view of what she sees, what the murderer sees, what the witness sees… how frickin’ awesome IS THAT?
This will help immensely when I’m trying to write the starting chapters of this story. And that sort of sucks because I’m leaving for the day in an hour. But… yay! I’m excited again!
Afterward:
For you faithful people who are reading this, as a token of my gratitude of your unspoken support, here’s the 3D view of the murder scene-
Bleak and depressing, no?
Day 1
The midnight kickoff went well in some ways. I got my word count for the day and then some within an hour and a half of writing (I was the first one out of the whole group to meet the word count), however it’s pretty crappy writing. Much of it was simply because I am very sleepy and I’m not quite as creative when I’m this tired. There is a lot of repetition and some of it doesn’t make sense. I know, the whole point is to just get it down, but I did much better writing than this last year.
On a funny note… we had several people approach us at the restaurant asking what we were doing. One person asked if we were playing WOW, and another asked if we were playing Battleship. It made us wonder if this is a common phenomenon. I mean, seriously, are WOW people so hard up that they’d wander into an IHOP at midnight just to play in a group?
Back to writing… What worries me the most, is that I realized about a half hour into it that I may not have enough plot to flesh this out to a full 50,000 words. I don’t hate the story, it just doesn’t have anything to offer. I suppose that after sleeping on it, I may come up with something useable, so I’m not giving it up yet.
Speaking of sleep, I’m going to go get some of that.
Day 1 Word Count: 1763 (Goal: 1667)
