05/04 - 1,159 words on ch18 of TBQ
06/04 - rewrote a poem, sorted out some submissions
07/04 - travel flailing → evening off
08/04 - 367 words on ch19 of TBQ + working on critique
09/04 - working on critique + 1,070 words on ch19 of TBQ
10/04 - 1,019 words on ch18, 249 words on ch19, 1,406 words on ch20 of TBQ
11/04 - 1,123 words on ch20 of TBQ

And, as noted earlier today, I passed the 50k mark. Huzzah!

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Bank holidays always mess with my brain. I keep thinking it's Sunday, but of course it's not. Belatedly, last week's output:

28/04 - 1,331 words on ch15, 86 words on ch17 of TBQ
29/04 - 537 words on ch15 + working on critique
30/04 - 292 words on ch15, 301 words on ch17 of TBQ
01/04 - working on critique
02/04 - 2,969 words on ch17 of TBQ
03/04 - 540 words on ch17 of TBQ, 410 words on “in its velvety chambers”
04/04 - social life

Half of the 2nd's output was copy-pasted from what I wrote last year, but I'm still counting it because they're words towards the final word count.

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21/04 - daily cabal story + working on critique
22/04 - working on critique
23/04 - 350 words on ch14 of TBQ
24/04 - 720 words on ch14 of TBQ
25/04 - 486 words on ch14, 301 words on ch16 of TBQ
26/04 - 1,534 words on ch16 of TBQ
27/04 - working on critique + 761 words on ch16 of TBQ

It wound up being a pretty productive week! I'll not be writing a short story this month either, unfortunately, but maybe I can do a brief short story splurge immediately after finishing The Bone Queen (which will be by the end of June, if it goes according to plan). Completing draft 2 of the novel is the most important thing to me right now.

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And this week I have managed the following:

14/04 - 127 words on ch12 of TBQ + working on critique
15/04 - 291 words on ch12 of TBQ + working on critique
16/04 - social life
17/04 - 1,146 words on ch12 of TBQ + working on critique
18/04 - 675 words on ch13 of TBQ
19/04 - 484 words on ch13, 141 words on ch14 of TBQ + social life
20/04 - 693 words on ch14 of TBQ + daily cabal story

Not bad at all. =D

Now to flop into the bath and read for a while.

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As before, what I have achieved this week:

07/04 - 1,095 words on ch12 of TBQ
08/04 - social life
09/04 - 266 words on TBQ + DeVotchKa!
10/04 -
11/04 - editing pass through “SA,P,N,R”
12/04 - read through “SA,P,N,R” + family time
13/04 - 531 words on ch12 of TBQ

Thursday saw me being brain-dead, on account of getting fewer than 5 hours' sleep after the DeVotchKa concert. I might have been able to write in the morning, but by the time I got home from work and had been to the gym and my dentist appointment, I struggled to glue thoughts together. I need my 6 hours minimum, much as I wish I could be creative with less.

But on other occasions, forcing myself is necessary and worthwhile -- I felt like writing nothing this morning, but managed my daily goal, as well as a pretty good amount of reading and lounging around.

Need to do more The Bone Queen this week, if I can. At least I sorted out my problems with chapter 12, which hopefully I can finish soon.

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Well, as stated, I am trying to be more productive, and will be posting weekly summaries of what I've done. The past week (I am starting weeks on Mondays) has included the following:

31/03 - 559 words on ch11 of TBQ + editing pass through “SA,P,N,R”
01/04 - 300 words on a new short story + editing pass through “SA,P,N,R”
02/04 - 718 words on ch11 of TBQ
03/04 - 326 words on a new short story + 478 words on ch12 of TBQ
04/04 - worked on review + social life
05/04 -
06/04 - 632 words on ch12 of TBQ + planning

Saturday was a braindead day, alas, though I did read through a rejected story and resubmit it, and spent the evening at a friend's house.

Still need to finish off a review this evening, after which I shall flop into the bath and read.

Not a bad week. Ideally I'd like more, but this is satisfactory.

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I spent most of March being lazy, barely getting any writing done. I didn’t write a short story, when I want to write one each month. I think I spent much of spent my writing time grappling with Chapter 10 of The Bone Queen, which has now been divided into two chapters, but still isn’t done.

This is all fine, if I want to miss my goals for this year.

If I actually want a finished novel by the end of the year, ready to start submitting to agents, if I want 12 new stories (one of which will hopefully sell to a pro market), if I want finished first drafts of two other novels, then I need to pull my thumb out and actually write. The words won’t appear on the page no matter how much I browse the internet and wish my wordcount was higher.

To which end, I am going to use this blog to hold my production accountable to myself, and to anyone reading who cares to encourage/insult me if I don’t do the work.

My targets aren’t entirely precise, given that I’m rewriting The Bone Queen rather than working on first draft, and it’s hard to tally up editing. 500 is my daily word target if I’m working on new material. It’s a bit less exact for editing. But if I haven’t done something useful with my day -- with the exception of days where I’ve been having a social life, or if something unavoidable like illness crops up -- then I’ll be annoyed with myself. Useful can also include writing reviews or critiquing other people’s work.

I’ll post weekly summaries of what I’ve done. I’ll be completely honest. If my week has been full of fail, feel free to insult/encourage me. If my week has been a success, make sweet internet-love to me then I'll be happy. I’m hoping that by being openly accountable, I’ll feel bad if I don’t have something to show for myself.

Because I don’t want to spend each day slogging through my day job and then browsing the internet when I get home. That’s not how I want my life to go. I want to have done something by the end of the year, other than accumulate a stack of books from amazon and get sore eyes from looking at the internet too much.

Yesterday was a good start:
- 559 words on Ch11 + editing pass through “SA,P,N,R.”

Now I need to continue that productivity throughout April, May and the rest of the year after that.

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Mood: determined