About 900 new words today.

Half finished one scene, wrote half another… and I’m fairly sure most of the latest one will be cut! Oh well! The decision now is: leave it and get it later? Or kill it now? Hard to say.

I spent a bunch of time revisiting this thread.

It has some wonderful advice on writing fiction, and possibly some dubious advice since it is unapologetically aimed at people who want to go the traditional publishing route. It was written in the early 2000’s as well, back before digital self-pubbing reached the state it is in today. Certainly before serial publishing became a potential option. So I’ve been trying to figure out which bits of plotting and pacing I should disregard without being biased. It’s tough, heh.

I did some more outlining and plot planning; the back half of episode 3 has been trickier than hoped, and the advice reading made me question some things about all the episodes. ‘Tis the ever swinging pendulum of momentum.

One irrefutable piece of advice from the thread is the Butt In Chair philosophy. The author recommends setting aside 2 hours daily for net new words, no excuses. I’ve been poor at tracking hours lately, but I can use new words as a rough proxy. I cook along at about 800 WPH if I’m in a decent place, so 1,600/day or 11,200/week means I’ve more or less hit that target. My Asana tracking calls only for 5,000/week, but I can usually get past that. The other way to look at it is 14/hours a week, but I’ve targeted 20/hours week for the whole of it, including: editing, publishing, community involvement, etc. It’s a good benchmark: maybe I should only allow 6 of those 20 hours for not-writing. Time shall tell.