It’s been an interesting week in the writer-as-worker world.\u00a0\u00a0 I did in fact meet and even exceed my weekly quota, topping 2000 words\/day and ending up with a total for the five days of just over 12,000 words.\u00a0 Two of the days produced really good stuff.\u00a0\u00a0 Three of the days produced more pedestrian stuff, but enough forward motion through the plot that there’s something to work with in revision.\u00a0 Two of the days (including one that turned out very well in the end, and one that turned out OK in the end) were very, very difficult…to get started, to continue, to drag out the task to the end of the day (which was late.)<\/p>\n
As usual, writing-related tasks (not the actual writing) popped up during the week–forms that needed to be signed and mailed (another batch is here now), emails from agent and editor, phone calls, etc.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Agent wanted to discuss my schedule over the next few months, the ad copy for Kings,\u00a0 give me a heads-up on new e-rights contracts in the mail (and now here)\u00a0 from the UK, and so on.<\/p>\n
Then the non-business\/non-book writing of blog entries, comment replies, email correspondence, etc., etc.<\/p>\n
And then there are the non-writing usual activities, mostly house-related, including the ongoing (slow, but at least ongoing) effort to un-stuff the place.<\/p>\n
However, on the whole, a successful week.\u00a0\u00a0 Today, Saturday, I probably won’t open the Book III files–I’ve got part of a beef neck stewing, and it will need the meat pulled off the bones in a couple of hours,\u00a0\u00a0 need to make bread, need to do laundry, and definitely need to fill another two feed sacks with stuff to be put out for trash for Monday pickup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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