Have we added blogging to the list of procastination techniques? We should.
We should also add checking the word count every 5 minutes just in case it's magically jumped to the minimum.
Of course, it hasn't. And I'm not going to make it there tonight. Ah well. This is how it went last year for me too. Set up is a pain in the heiny and then I get closer to where I want to be and it's just a matter of stringing the scenes together and capturing them before they escape me. But to catch them all I'd need a laptop in the shower and the ability to dictate or type while feeding the baby because all my best writing happens when I can't possibly write.
4,080 and a loooong way to go....
Posted by Egwenna at November 4, 2003 09:20 PM | TrackBackFor me, for this particular novel, it's every time I drive in downtown Albany. All of a sudden scenes start popping out at me because so much seems to take place in the car in this book and I have no way of writing any of it down... I think I've lost more of my plot that way...
Posted by: D. on November 4, 2003 09:38 PMThat's frustrating. That used to happen to me, but I don't get out of the house as often as I used to because going anywhere with a baby is such a production. These days if I'm in the car my mind is on all the places I'm racing to. So now it happens when I'm feeding the baby or somewhere else where my hands are totally occupied. But I've gotten out of bed once or twice to go write something before the scene fades and I forget all the wording.
By doing that I made my daily quota today (hurray!) and even had a few extra words to start digging me out of the hole.
Posted by: B on November 5, 2003 02:05 AM