Writing Goal for the Day?

[RedHairedandFriendly]

Sure you are.

They are sliding to make the curve so I'll have some time to work on a Valentines day story or two.

I got a paragraph done, before I had to head out again.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Drama of the missing deposit - for anyone who cares. Turns out, it wasn't missing after all. It DID, however, that the Regional Manager (me) to reach his hand inside the safe and feel all the sides on the inside. It was laying perfectly against a wall and had probably been touched without being recognized as what it was a dozen times. No terminations, but two very big ass chewings.

Instead of trying to salvage any writing this week, I think I'll head over to Tampa tomorrow for some XXX fun before I fly home on Thursday.

 

[PennLady]

Home. Whew. Did a little writing in the car, but that's not as easy as it sounds. But now we're home.

 

[PayDay]

Phew!

After three days and many hours of not looking at pixels in WORD, I finally figured out how to bridge an unexplainable gap in a story. Now all I have to do is finish it.

(Also, believe nothing a red head tells you unless she looks like she is lying or unless she looks like she is about to hit you.)

 

[hotdamnazgirl]

Yeah!!!

I got 4,000 words down tonight. I know that is not much to others, but that is pretty good for me. Now off to bed.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Relatives are leaving tonight. Unfortunately, another car load pulled in last night, and they are staying through the weekend. My prediction of no more writing for the rest of the year is starting to look prophetic. Sometimes I hate living in the tropics.

 

[Dual_Triode]

For the first time in months, I heard from my muse. As is her style, she smacked me in the face with a two-by-four. A seed of an idea had been planted over the Holidays, but it was an unusual scene in a coffee shop that pulled the trigger. Last night, I outlined a story; it even has a Valentine's Day connection. Tonight, I hope to flesh out more of the details and characters.

I am highly tempted to enter this story in the upcoming Valentine's Day themed contest. I have never entered one of these contests before, so this will be something new.

Despite the bruise, I'm glad my muse is back.

 

[PennLady]

Back from celebrating the holidays, so we get a small break, then off to celebrate the holidays with the other set of grandparents. While I enjoy all of this, it does mean little to no writing time. Grrr. Going to have to work something out with Mr. Penn; plans for writing this year just never materialized. Which is a pity when there's so much I'd like to write.

 

[AbbyGrace]

my goal for the upcoming year is to get back into writing.

i've set just a simple goal of writing at least 200 words per day. i know that's a tiny amount to most of you here, but i'm more interested in regaining the discipline to write every day. hopefully the volume will increase with the daily routine as i stretch out my writing muscles.

 

[RjThoughts]

I've finally thawed from my walk. Perhaps I can get an hour or two in, depending on whether or not I find what's being written good.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Ninety-nine percent of writers have one of two problems: They got nothing to say, or what they got to say aint worth writing.

 

[sr71plt]

That (99 percent), of course, is a ridiculous percentage number, even though there is no doubt that the lack of anything writing worthy to write about does affect some writers (writers being a very small percentage of the population to begin with). Maybe 33 percent? Because something worthy to write about can come out of the most mundane situations.

That said, I do see a lot of writers (and readers, in their inability to appreciate something beyond the mundane) who lack the experiences to be able to lay down a fresh, interesting, meaningful story.

Today I'm trying to finish up a couple of writing project phases. I'm finishing up the bonus book in habu's Clint Folsom Compendium, Volume 1, which I want to see launched in January, and I have to do some rewriting--at the publisher's request--on the front end of habu's Home to Fire Island, which is now overdue for launching.

 

[lovecraft68]

Having something worth writing about also hinges on another variable. The reader.

What I may read and say is crap why bother? Someone else here may say "Wow what a great fresh topic"

like many things in life its subjective and there is an audience for practically any concept.

 

[lovecraft68]

Well I finished editing my project. Three days and more coffee and Mountain dew than I have consumed since I used to play pool all night.

I had one dilemma. I edited 13 chapters and was going to put them in one e-book. But at the end of the 8th chapter there seems to be a very good natural split. Perfect and it would keep this e-book almost identical in word count to the first volume.

But.,.. all 13 chapters take place in the past so I figured best to have them all together rather than 2 e-books in the past and the reader getting lost.

Sooo... after weighing the pros and cons, and figuring what my gut told me. I made an educated decision.

I put my back to the dart board and threw one over my shoulder without looking. Even number it ends at one point, odd I put the whole thing in.

Even it was (#14). Good news is the third installment will now only need a cover.

Who says this has to be complicated!

Probably all the professionals I just made twitch, but screw it.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Having something worth writing about also hinges on another variable. The reader.

What I may read and say is crap why bother? Someone else here may say "Wow what a great fresh topic"

like many things in life its subjective and there is an audience for practically any concept.

Some people like shit sandwiches tho shit sandwiches arent the pennacle of haute cuisine anywhere. Your appeal for plastic trophies for all is touching but everyone secretly wants to be first rate.

 

[RjThoughts]

Ninety-nine percent of writers have one of two problems: They got nothing to say, or what they got to say aint worth writing.

All writers have something to say. It comes down to whether or not they want to share it with others.

 

[lovecraft68]

Some people like shit sandwiches tho shit sandwiches arent the pennacle of haute cuisine anywhere. Your appeal for plastic trophies for all is touching but everyone secretly wants to be first rate.

But someone writing a shit sandwich has at least written something. Using your own analogy James, you haven't written shit.

 

[sr71plt]

All writers have something to say. It comes down to whether or not they want to share it with others.

I think JBJ is more right than this is. I think It comes down to having the skill to make it something worth reading. "Writer" is a neutral word. You have to slap an adjective on the front of it (e.g., "good" or "bad") to give the word any meaning.

 

[lovecraft68]

Good or bad, is still subjective. My good writer might be your bad one, and the other way around.

 

[SydneyBlake]

Well I finished editing my project. Three days and more coffee and Mountain dew than I have consumed since I used to play pool all night.

I had one dilemma. I edited 13 chapters and was going to put them in one e-book. But at the end of the 8th chapter there seems to be a very good natural split. Perfect and it would keep this e-book almost identical in word count to the first volume.

But.,.. all 13 chapters take place in the past so I figured best to have them all together rather than 2 e-books in the past and the reader getting lost.

Sooo... after weighing the pros and cons, and figuring what my gut told me. I made an educated decision.

I put my back to the dart board and threw one over my shoulder without looking. Even number it ends at one point, odd I put the whole thing in.

Even it was (#14). Good news is the third installment will now only need a cover.

Who says this has to be complicated!

Probably all the professionals I just made twitch, but screw it.

I admire your method, but what else is new?

 

[litfan10]

Ugh...Holiday distractions. I have a January 2nd deadline and "got nuthin'." Finally today a glimmer hit me, so we'll see. Happy holidays and New Year to everyone out there!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

But someone writing a shit sandwich has at least written something. Using your own analogy James, you haven't written shit.

PILOT JUNIOR

You dont know that. All you know is what PILOT blabbers.

 

[beatrice_dreams]

I got 4,000 words down tonight. I know that is not much to others, but that is pretty good for me. Now off to bed.

"...not much to others..." ?? Okay, I must be the world's slowest writer then. I got about 1200 down last night and I thought that was a huge leap forward!

How does one write more than 4000 a night? I suppose subject-matter may have some bearing on this...

 

[TxRad]

Got a little time this morning so I'm off to see which one of the four Valentines Day stories I can finish. all are over 65k now and still growing.

 

[PennLady]

Prepping for the next round of holiday travel ... which will be nice but doesn't lend itself to writing. Ah well.