First the ups. My very modest weekly word count goal has been met and surpassed each week this year. Big ups, whoop, whoop!! Bear in mind that this is no huge accomplishment because the goal is small, on purpose though, and I hope to step it up soon. Another up is that I have been achieving the small goal early in the week, leaving the latter half to 3/4 of the week for bonus writing. This makes me feel good about my ability to get the words down, but it leads into the downs.
The biggest down is that I'm leaving valuable writing time on the table. I mean, what do you do when you just feel blah? You get home from work or school, spend some quality time with the family, cook and eat, and then what. Well, write of course. Right? That's the plan anyway, but you're worn out from the day. The writing just doesn't always happen. My thought process is that I've already reached my goal and I still haven't finished "A Memory Of Light." So I read and not write. All things considered, it could be worse. If Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson hadn't done such a wonderful job on the "Wheel of Time" series, this may not be as big a problem.
The other down I'm facing now is that I've come to a point in my story that has me stumped. I have to get past this point and fast or I will fail at my word count goal next week. I may have to skip the scene and come back to it later, though I would rather not.
As I write this, I feel as though the solution to my lack of writing problem is apparent. The word count goal needs to be higher. I've promised 1000 words a week. That's been done fairly easily, so I'm going to double it now. Starting next week the goal is 2000 words. We'll see how that works out for a couple of weeks and hopefully move it up again.
Now I just need to get past this scene. I'll get to work on that now while I'm sittin' here write 'n' stuff.
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