I finally got myself moving again about two weeks ago. That's when I decided to start putting up my daily reports. I work best when I have small deadlines and an audience that I don't want to disappoint. I'm going to keep this up as an experiment and see if it keeps me focussed and movong quickly. Maybe I'll start weekly reports here on the blogs.
For October:
- I've written about 10,000 usable words.
- That includes an entire chapter (admittedly a short one).
- I put a nice dent into another chapter.
- I think I figured out the solution to an organizational problem that has been bothering me.
- That third early occurrence of the word "mammoth" in print? The other two were just trivia; I think this one is important.
6 comments:
Sounds like a fine idea. Glad you're back and progressing.
My system is: I create the (provisonal) names of chapters, then I start to fill them with rough ideas and sentences. That will eventually evolve into nice chapters. Then the rewriting starts.
I hope you will funfill your dream of publishing a book about these mammals.
ps: you did read the very interesting theories about the extinction of mammoths from Immanuel Velikovsky?
weekly progress report at least.
My vote: as often as you like, but at least every week or two.
Every couple of weeks is great. I'm pulling for you to get this thing in print!
Be careful writing about the book doesn't get in the way of ...
Anyway, whatever works. Really looking forward to reading, even buying, the published version.
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