Well, yesterday on my day off I learned that I make far, far more progress if I write on my novel for an hour at a time instead of fifteen minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 Funny how that works!<\/p>\n
I later did another hour, and later wrote two reviews, and the word count really spiked.\u00c2\u00a0 Then it dawned on me:\u00c2\u00a0 With 15 days left in November, I have 8 of them off and am working on 7 of them.\u00c2\u00a0 I made a spreadsheet, and if I do an hour on my working days, and at least two hours on my off days, I really might still be able to hit 50,000 words.<\/p>\n
Yes, I still want to catch up on my reviews.\u00c2\u00a0 I still want to get moved in to this townhouse.\u00c2\u00a0 But yesterday I did get some pictures up and I did get some reviews written.<\/p>\n
A lot is going to depend on how these headaches go.\u00c2\u00a0 The day before yesterday, I didn’t do any writing at all because my head hurt and I couldn’t think clearly.\u00c2\u00a0 But yesterday, I told myself to wait to take a nap until I had done an hour of writing.\u00c2\u00a0 I actually found that writing for an hour was a better treatment than a nap, because writing is more distracting!\u00c2\u00a0 And you can only nap so long.\u00c2\u00a0 There comes a point where no matter how sick and weak you feel, you won’t be able to go to sleep any more — and you’re left with lying in bed feeling sick and weak.\u00c2\u00a0 How much nicer to distract myself with writing.\u00c2\u00a0 Though to be fair, I think that the nap was what I needed to have the strength for the second writing session of the day.<\/p>\n
And actually, I’m finding that writing a review with a headache is a little harder.\u00c2\u00a0 With the novel, I’m writing a first draft, and first drafts are supposed <\/em>to be bad.\u00c2\u00a0 But with the reviews, I very much would like to be coherent and thoughtful, and that’s a bit harder to do with a headache than writing a bad first draft.<\/p>\n So, my progress so far, at past the halfway point:<\/p>\n On my novel: 11, 158 words<\/p>\n On my novel plus my blogs: 17, 512 words.<\/p>\n Still a long way to go!\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s still just possible….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, yesterday on my day off I learned that I make far, far more progress if I write on my novel for an hour at a time instead of fifteen minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 Funny how that works! I later did another hour, and later wrote two reviews, and the word count really spiked.\u00c2\u00a0 Then it dawned on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanowrimo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}