Jenna Blackthorne

I procrastinated until I only had half an hour left, then knocked out a thousand words. So I'm behind, but I'm getting a better handle on what works and what I can manage. Here's my thought. I have no problem writing 1k, even when the day is busy, because that only takes half an hour. I can start close to when I go to bed and just make myself get it done. That gives me 5k from writing on week days. If I meet the other 14k of my weekly quota on the weekends, suddenly this looks a lot more doable. Over two days that's only 7k per day. I'm thinking that would take 3-4 hours, so I'd still have most of my weekend to goof off, even with that writing commitment. Heck, I can even write extra on Fridays. That gives me three days to spread the excess words out over instead of two. I can manage this. I'll see how this first weekend goes with this new plan.

First day back at the day job and I misjudged my writing time. Still got most of my word count in, but not what I wanted. Really I just put off starting too long. I really need to get writing faster. I've also tumbled completely off my outline. Not that I had much of an outline in the first place... Oh well. I don't know where the story is going. The less I worry about outlines, the easier it is to write fast so maybe this is an advantage. Or maybe the story will crash and burn and I'll be like, "Oops."

I achieved my word count for the day! Yes! It's a nice feeling of accomplishment to see that progress meter going up. The writing is taking me so much longer than it should. My hope is that as the month goes on I'll work my way back to this daily word count only taking an hour or two to achieve. Today it took, well, the entire day. All of it. Sigh. Then again, I do have some extra time after dinner. Maybe I'll go crazy and start a short story, who knows! I feel like I'm so far out of practice that this book is really bad so far. Like, I don't even think I'm describing this hotel in a reasonable manner. It's supposed to be a generic type hotel off the highway and I don't think I made that clear. I don't want to bother with any kind of editing, revising, or critiquing until I've got my mojo back, though. Overall, it feels pretty great to be writing again. My only worry is that I'll get so into it that it'll make getting my actual