Thirty Days, 30K: Day Sixteen
Sunday, November 16th, 2025 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelAnother late evening. I went to writers group today, but writers group is not a conducive atmosphere for writing, for me, so I had to do my words after I got home, after dinner.
And I had to cut about 250 words, because I'd done something that set the wrong mood and my writing-brain screeched to a halt until I fixed it. Which, points for me recognizing that that's what this particular stoppage was due to. (I can't always tell, and my brain is notoriously adamant about not sending memos.) And at least it was only about 250 words, which in the grand scheme of things is not that much.
I ended up with 736 words net. This is the first time this month that I've done less than quota (on a day that I've written at all). I feel a bit bad about that, but (a) I'm about to do an abrupt shift in both mood and action, and I kind of need a mental reset, and (b) I'm tired, and don't want to screw it up. And also, the bit I just finished was emotionally difficult (I killed a character, and while this character was only introduced so that I could kill him, writing his final moments was a bit too reminiscent of my mother's last days), and I should get a reward for that, dammit. A reward other than having to write another 264 words, that is. I've got plenty of margin, I'm still well ahead of par; as long as I don't make a habit of this, I'm fine.
17,827 new words and counting.
And I had to cut about 250 words, because I'd done something that set the wrong mood and my writing-brain screeched to a halt until I fixed it. Which, points for me recognizing that that's what this particular stoppage was due to. (I can't always tell, and my brain is notoriously adamant about not sending memos.) And at least it was only about 250 words, which in the grand scheme of things is not that much.
I ended up with 736 words net. This is the first time this month that I've done less than quota (on a day that I've written at all). I feel a bit bad about that, but (a) I'm about to do an abrupt shift in both mood and action, and I kind of need a mental reset, and (b) I'm tired, and don't want to screw it up. And also, the bit I just finished was emotionally difficult (I killed a character, and while this character was only introduced so that I could kill him, writing his final moments was a bit too reminiscent of my mother's last days), and I should get a reward for that, dammit. A reward other than having to write another 264 words, that is. I've got plenty of margin, I'm still well ahead of par; as long as I don't make a habit of this, I'm fine.
17,827 new words and counting.
