When given the time I will write Himani — June 24, 2008 at 6:21 pm   {} Category: Writing Tags:

I’ve been trying to keep a log of how much writing I am doing this summer. I wondered, “If given the time, without a million other things pressing on my mind, would I write? And how much would I write?” I made a pretty fancy Excel spreadsheet (because I’m a geek like that) and yesterday I realized I’m just over 20k this month. I think, besides November, this is the first time I’ve written so much in a month. If this continues, I may actually finish “Tayce” by the end of this summer. In which case would begin the bear that is editing (and I have a lot of editing to do for Tayce).

I’ve been writing the novel with the mindset of Nanowrimo — don’t think about it, edit later, just get it out. So I write as the story comes to me, keeping my editing to a minimum until I finish it and can look at the story from beginning to end and see what needs to be tweaked, changed, redone, and/or undone. When I took this philosophy, my output increased nearly 3x. And I can edit in the good stuff and edit out the bad. But, I also feel like I’m getting somewhere.

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