Day 9 - Work/Rest

I like the hour work / hour rest schedule, although I think I can cut back on the resting time between 'work hours'. Stopping before I'm tired requires less resting and is more a metal break. I listen to music, go through mere background material, or nap. At the end of the day I'm spent not exhausted. It's like the Boy Scouts Walk/Run hikes.

My real problem is that I read The Lively Art of Writing before I started this time and am now obsessed with sentence length and paragraph structure. I recommend the book wholeheartedly - but not right now. It makes turning off my Internal Editor that much more difficult.

Day 8 - Wind-sprints

With time to burn I've been writing in sessions of only 500 to 800 words.

Lighter weight more reps. I stop writing before I lock up.

Uncle Mike, a man who wrote eloquently, spoke in cliches, sports metaphors, and profanity; his advice when I was struggling with a piece was: "Kid, bunt."

If I can hunker down for the Veteran's Day weekend, I should have my word count to where daily production down to about a 1,000.

Day 7 - 12K

Just passed 12K mostly in narrative and notes from a few days hence in the story.

Day 6 - Staycation status quo...

The Staycation stratagem didn't work as planned.

I've started Road Rage, the sequel to Highway from Hell, by overwriting a big chunk of the end of HfH, which, at the time, I rushed to finish.

With both notes and narrative I'm caught up on word count, I was hoping to be well ahead of the game by this weekend.

Day 4 and 5: Encouragement from Fate

While I'm still fumbling my way through the start Nano the History Channel ran After Armageddon, a doc about surviving a pandemic.

Day 4 was napping and writing; the bulk of the writing a travelogue/rambling outline. The novel itself is not unfolding but the word count is catching up.

Day 5 Not pushing too hard. Just finished the morning run of 863 words, hoping to get a few sessions of 300-500 words.

No word about my car and I need to go out and get water.

Day 3 -2013

Spent most of the weekend napping.

I am so far behind.

As usual, I'm averaging just shy of a thousand relevant words a night. The rest is just filler.

Day 2 - 2013

Late start yesterday and three false starts. It all goes to word count.

Didn't keep my fingers nimble; typing is slow going.

Same problem as last two years - after around a thousand words I start typing filler.


spent most of today on car troubles. No car means more transit time.