Auteur : Marie Alice

This week word count goal: 32 500 words
Word count so far: 18 674 words

I wrote, in a previous post, about how your writer’s life has to adapt to your life as a parent.
Well, today was such a day.

Kiddo took forever to fall asleep; today’s day job work was… something else; I am thoroughly exhausted.

But, that is not an excuse to not work on YA WIP. Which I did. For a very short amount of time.
I am sure I will end up deleting every single word I wrote tonight because it is sooo not working. The whole chapter I thought I had all figured out is not working.
I know why.
It’s because of the rule of three.

In YA WIP, action happens in a haunted place, in a college and in third place (I’m not sure yet, since a character who was supposed to simply show up once brought something way more interesting, in a creating conflicts kinda way).
In the present chapter I am working on, I created a fourth place. And it simply doesn’t work.

The fourth place is where we meet the half-way there antagonist, and I am info-dumping like crazy. Too many details, too many dialogues, too many backstories conflicts that are getting in the way of the actual action.
In short, I am making things too complicated for the reader.

That chapter needs a complete re-write. The one before too.

But it will have to wait until tomorrow. Now, it is brainstorming time. I have to get my characters out of there while introducing the half-way antagonist and the new character. A cute one too.

Anyhou, thanks for reading. Until next time!

Work count goal for the week: 32 500 words
Word count so far: 18 406 words

I cheated today.
I took two hours out of my working day (I so happy to be my own boss!) to work on the YA WIP.
The results were far from great. I had a hard time focusing on the writing, but a pretty good time shopping online for my kiddo – kiddos clothes are the best.

At least, instead of letting myself feel like a loser because of a disapointing word count, I simply reminded myself that I am a creature of habits.
My writing time is at night, and therefore, getting the creative writing juices running during day is harder.
Because during the day, I blog with keywords, topics, sentences length in mind.

A very, very good thing came out of it though: a good brainstorm for the end of the present chapter. Plus, I got the next chapter all figured out.
It helped me tonight, not to write faster I’m afraid, but certainly to write with more confidence.
I had fun writing for the first time since the beginning of this writing rush week I imposed on myself.
Something I am now very inclined to think I won’t do again!

A little pressure is good. A lot of pressure is too much.

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This week word count goal: 32 500 words
Word count so far: 17 121

1 post for two writing days. Because this is writing rush week !!

Day 29
After all that writing prep, tonight I barely got 300 words down.
Long week-end means crunching day-time job task at night and, one thing let to another… and tiredness is getting the way of my little too ambitious writing plans.

I have just started and I just know I won’t be able to write, what, more than 10k words in 4 night-writing sessions?

I’m still going to try my best because I would love to be able to push through, but I think reaching 25k words this week is still a pretty good accomplishment for me.

We’ll see what tomorrow’s gonna bring this way!

Day 30
I did wake up at 5am this morning for the sole purpose of getting at least 500 words written before my kiddo got up.
But faith it would seem had other plans.

Kiddo woke up two minutes after I did, and suddenly, I had to get a bottle of milk, and get the kettle going, and try to remember where my emergency tea stash was hiding.
Long story short, no writing early this morning. I did try to compensate during my lunch hour, but I was not as productive as I hoped.

Tonight went better, but argh I’m such a slow writer. I think, think, think about the right words, and how to make that sentence prettier, when I might to erase the whole thing during revision.
But I can’t help myself, so I just have to drink more tea tomorrow night and push through one or two hours more than usual.

Sounds like a plan to me!

Thanks for reading. Until next time!