So things under Corona "social distancing" have been going well. Closing in on a full month at home and no one is dead yet. The work has been going well, lots of blocking done and quite a bit of work translating that blocking into draft up to 19k words, then apparently the muse decided to take a holiday. I literally have to make myself sit down and write these days - not necessarily because I don't want to write, but because I have no idea what I'm writing next. The next few scenes are set, I have a basic outline for each, but the words are like pulling teeth! I'm still getting something done every night - gotta keep my streak up, but it's frequently NOT on the WIP. This post, for example, I wanted to get another post written about this topic and it was a lot easier to convince myself to sit down and write this than even consider the next scene. It's a little disheartening, especially considering how elated I was just a week or so ago, the words were flowing and I'd get so frustrated when I'd type so late that I couldn't keep my eyes open and knew I had to get to bed so I could get some work done the next day, but the words just kept coming. Stupid muse, clearly doesn't know anything about pacing herself! I've heard two different, opposite camps on this issue - the first is the hardcore, bootcamp-style voice, telling me to push through, to get the words down, that words you will delete later in revision are better than no words at all. After all, you can't revise a blank page. And I certainly get that. The second camp, this one always feels very hippie artsy commune, wants me to listen to my muse, be kind to myself and to recognize you can't force art. I get that too - gods know that it feels like I'm trying to get blood from a turnip this week! I have a tendency to ignore the second voice a little more as I worry that the hippie mask is covering my own uncertainty and that it's trying to undermine me before I even get started. Yes, I probably have spent as much time thinking about my own psychology as it relates to writing as I have actually writing. Been a rough week. Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and count these as my words for the day, even though they aren't getting me anywhere close to my goal of 50, by the end of the month and with 20 days and just over 30K in words to get down, I REALLY have to get back to it!
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