Balancing writing

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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."

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