Day 2 - November 2, 2007

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4256 / 50000 words. 9% done!

11:59PM: Today I was in LA to see Zach Quinto on Jimmy Kimmel Live so little writing was done today. I did some this morning, and some after getting out of the show, but aside from that, nada. Now I'm right on track. Just need 745 words today and I break even. I'm shooting for at least that today. Make it a positive. :) Cause I'm not feeling it with the story. My writing has gotten so weak because I'm not used to writing like this anymore. Gaah. I'm going to seriously hold myself to writing. It's a friggin' organ and I need to get it active again. Maybe if I exercise my brain I can exercise my body too. *L* That would be cool.

I'm going to try to do what my mom tells me to do: end on a positive. So, on that note, I will write my 745 words and I will write more than that. On another hand, this story is gonna work because the more I write, the better it will be. I have a new scene to work with. Going to introduce Claire into my story now. Virginia has talked and thought a bit about West. He seems to have a similar MO to the guy who put the moves on Claire in season 1, but he doesn't try to rape the girls. Just dries them up of their uniqueness. But I don't think she believes this completely of West because he's going to end up being of help to her. I think she might just be a bitter ex.

Day 3 - November 3, 2007

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5252 / 50000 words. 11% done!


11:19PM: The writing is getting more craptastic by the second. Characterization is shot. Description is more telling than showing. Gah. Waiting for the upswing. The only positive thing is that I'm feeling that writing muscle starting to loosen in its working out. The flow is coming. Hopefully I can get an overflow very, very soon. I'm going to start slow now. Just trying for the minimum every day. Actually, trying to have it where I don't have to write the min. of words, but will have over-flow to cover me. Today I did piece-meal writing. I had about twenty minutes before work, twenty minutes at work during my break, eight minutes during my ten, got in about seven minutes on the ride to meet my friend, and then did another five minutes at home. There. That pulled about 975 words or so. Maybe writing isn't as difficult as I was trying to make it. The difficulty is in having it not just sound good, but touch the reader. But right now, it's really not meant to be read by anybody but me. LOL

Tomorrow I'm going to be getting some writing time with my friend Kristen. Writing in public with others is good for me. I hope I can get brokenbacktango into more writing situations with me. We need to find a place that inspires one to write. Borders cafe didn't seem to cut it. That's a real shame, too, because they have tea service. Maybe we should go back to Boomers. Would help if I had some more monies. *L* With Kristen, we'll be writing at a church in Pomona where there is a cafe before the service. Haven't been back with her there for about two months now. They had really good music during the service. Maybe the service can give me some ideas. That would be cool.