To be honest, all I really want to do is write the mushy-gushy scenes. These practical, 'moving' sections of the story are what are tripping me up. I just like to write about beautiful people kissing and falling in love. While I listen to music about beautiful people kissing and falling in love.
But I buckled down, put Scrivener in the distraction free mode, and hit my goal of passing up 40,000 words today. Rule. I'm also almost halfway through the draft now, plot-wise.
I want to pause for a moment before the daily wordcount to give a shoutout to two other aspiring novelist bloggers who I think are awesome. Not that it will help them at all because I have between 0-3 daily readers, but I want to mention them.
First: Gina, for commenting on yesterday's post and encouraging me exactly when and how I need to be encouraged. Her blog is pretty awesome and actually offers writing tips and book recs as opposed to being 99.8% self-centered like mine. Which is admirable. Thanks, Gina!
Second: The Hack Novelist posts a daily wordcount on his blog, too, which I unabashedly stole for this blog. Unlike me, though, he actually writes interesting posts. So, awesome. Check him out.
Words Written Today: 2176
Total Words: 40228
Listening to: "World Spins Madly On" by the Weepies (Husband is home today and managing the children which means I got to blare my headphones, so even though "Despicable Me" was playing in the undercurrent, my music pretty much blocked out kidsounds. YAY!)
Obsessed with: Ohio.
Last but not least, here is a photo of my kids splashing in the water yesterday, because the weather was uncharacteristically wonderful. Yay!
You called my blog awesome and that made my day!!
ReplyDeleteI too loooove to write the mushy gushy scenes! Rock on, amazing kisses!
I wish I could tell you how much I hated chapters 3 & 4 of my novel. I'm still re-writing them, but only because I'm determined to get them right. And I think I'm close! You'll get there too!