Okay, so my story started off with a bang! I was pushing out a few thousand words a day in the beginning. And not just a few thousand words, but a few thousand LINEAR words!
Now I am starting to only be able to write about eight hundred to a thousand words before getting bored with a scene.
It could be that my characters aren't behaving like I want them to - two of the semi-main characters had to go and have life changing events that have thrown my story a bit out of wack.
And the MC's love interest? Yeah, well, he's acting like a boy - and not doing or saying anything he's supposed to be doing or saying.
With all that, I am thinking, darn, I'll never finish this the way I'm going. Luckily, I'm still writing, so I guess that's all that matters.
I used to motivate my staff to reach lofty goals by breaking down a big number into smaller ones - it always worked for them, and when I just did it for my word count, it made me feel a lot better....
How it works:
Say you have written 10,000 words. That means you have 40,000 left to write.
40,000 divided by 22 days left is 1,818 words a day. Still a lot.
But, with 24 hours in each day, that brings it down to 75 words an hour. But, I have to sleep and work you say? Okay, so make it a solid 6 hours that you have as free time, and that's still only 303 words per free hour that you aren't working or sleeping.
And in that 6 hours of free time, you have 360 minutes. So less than a word a minute.
Anyways, that helps to motivate me. I can so write a word a minute! I can so do 300 words an hour for only 6 hours!
Michelle
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Michelle
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Nov 8, 2007 - 09 18
That's a good way to look at it! Thanks for sharing, Michelle!