I have tonight and then tomorrow before I’m done with the initial draft of the novella. 1000 words a day for the last 26 days (as of today) and chapter 27 wraps things up. I still need to fire out 1000 new words every day, so tomorrow I am working in more time to outline a new story or at least make it so I have a few scenes in mind to jot down a thousand words about each day. This habit forming stuff is hard work. It is the difficult and important writing work I’ve always imagined myself doing, and for that I am grateful. This modification/expansion of my process is teaching me about my process. I am learning what works for me as a writer and what ought to be culled.
One thing I have learned over the years is that I really need background sound. I cannot use music unless in public, because the white noise of the crowd counteracts the music to create something which can be entirely overlooked. ASMR is one way to go with this, and I have tried that several times. The overt sexuality of most ASMR channels is a turn off. Therefore I generally turn on rain sounds and use those as a method to keep the head fully into the situation.
Some Thoughts:
- I’m constantly amazed at how sports writers can make a living relying on their entirely flawed certainty and the willingness of fans to keep believing them or at least click through. I clicked through (well, I guess right there is how it works) an NFL.com mock draft and was shocked to see… no I wasn’t shocked. It was more nonsense based on the ideas they already had about how the universe works. Basically, an exercise in self-fulfilling prophecy bolstered by rumor and poor interpretation of motivations and facts.
- Still playing Madden and learning the ways of Moneyball with the GM/Owner features of said game. Super fun.