Isn’t it nice to know that Paks never had to face a word like “metric?”\u00a0\u00a0 But I do, and so today was the day that a) I emailed the maps to Editor and b) put all the loose chunks of Book III into one file, more or less in order (but not eliminating the need to write things in between them.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That meant I could count the total number of pages…and words…and figure out where I was compared to where I wanted to be.<\/p>\n
The news is, not<\/em> where I wanted to be.\u00a0\u00a0 Not unexpected: the LifeStuff early this year set me back and I never caught up with that, and then the maps–which shouldn’t have taken as long as they did–did<\/em> take as long as they did.\u00a0\u00a0 I had been running a sort of internal guesstimate, more pessimistic than the actual result, but now it’s time to place the nose firmly on the grindstone and stick to the daily production requirement.\u00a0\u00a0 Today I managed half of the basic block, but gave myself credit for getting the maps converted and mailed off and then spending the time hooking together the chapters and chapter fragments into one big file.\u00a0\u00a0 Which is about to get bigger.<\/p>\n Getting back on schedule is doable, and not the frantic 4000 words\/day level I was pushing two years ago…not even close to that…but it will mean a more consistent output than I’ve achieved since before starting full time on the maps.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I won’t be disappearing from this blog (too much fun here) or all my other online venues, but the words will have to come first.\u00a0\u00a0 (And yes, I know I need to go back, find the emails\u00a0 with pictures, and post those, too.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I haven’t forgotten them. )<\/p>\n All my characters have daily chores that form the foundation disciplines of their lives.\u00a0\u00a0 They get up, they go to work, they practice whatever skills they need…and so must their writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Isn’t it nice to know that Paks never had to face a word like “metric?”\u00a0\u00a0 But I do, and so today was the day that a) I emailed the maps to Editor and b) put all the loose chunks of Book III into one file, more or less in order (but not eliminating the need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,107],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}