I made a goal to write for at least 30 minutes each day during November. I missed about 5 days.
It was a bit harder than I expected during the holidays. Sometimes I ended up writing for an entire hour the next day to make up for missing the day before. I am amending the goal slightly for December, because things will only get busier.
The goal is still to write nearly every day, just to keep the juices flowing. However, I will take Sundays off, because I think even a writer's brain could use a break to help refresh it. Also, any blogging I do during the week will count towards about half of the writing requirement for the day.
On to the more interesting stuff... I did end up writing a few new scenes for my fiction novel. It takes me a surprisingly longish amount of time to write just one scene. I am somewhat of a perfectionist and I take great care in choosing my words.
More and more I am realizing that I should not be concerned with pumping out a clean and shiny first draft to try to limit editing time down the road. Because even my shiniest new scenes may not even make their way into the first manuscript. At all.
The idea of the story is still evolving. I'm not sure if I should count on doing a series, or just one book. I dont' know how old my character should be at the first.
But at least if I'm writing I'm getting somewhere.
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