What the hell is it with my writing that happens every time I try to set good, solid, reasonable goals and something always flies in about a day later to completely screw with my plans?!
I signed up for the 70 Days of Sweat Challenge with the honest intention of writing 750 words a day–at least. Figured it’s a good time to start the novel rather than just brainstorming til I’m 80, plus with the short story due out reasonably soon (still awaiting the release date) I’d need to follow up with a second story to the editor.
Sounded great til I got a notice from a writing friend who mentioned an editor was looking for authors for work for hire. Basically, the publisher has titles they need to put out and need to hire writers to do a lot of writing in a short period of time. Before my brain could stop my fingers, I fired off a query to the editor only to have her send me the list of titles and prompt me to pick five. I did, and those had all been bid on. Picked three more, and those were gone. Picked three more on Friday and haven’t heard back from the editor, but I do admit none of those titles were really great. But the challenge of writing a 65K word book in 90 days is too great to pass up (she says stupidly).
So, anyway, in the meantime, I’m working on this challenge. I wrote three pages today, which, added to my one page from before, brings me to four. A whopping 843 words, but I’m into the second scene of the story (dialogue always comes to me first before description) and still cranking it out. And I’ll be back again at it tomorrow night unless something else comes across my email and I think I have to write it.
Why can’t I stay focused? Maybe I should work on that in my writer’s coaching course…lol.
And do these blog posts count into my 750 a day? I wish!
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