Wanted to get the Still Life manuscript up to 60k before heading off on holiday.
Sometimes social media can be useful. After announcing to the world that I was going to write 3,000 words, I felt as though I had to do it - so I did. Here's the timeline...
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| 2:04 PM Right. I'm going to sit here until I've written 3,000 words. This may take some time. |
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| 3:00 PM 1,000 down, 2,000 to go... |
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| 3:51 PM 2,000 down, 1,000 to go... |
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| 4:35 PM 3,000 words done. MS now at 60,100. I rest. |
What I personally find interesting about this is the time perception v. reality conundrum. It felt as though the first 1,000 words were the easiest to write, the second 1,000 I was flagging a bit and the last 1,100 were slow going, but my Twitter feed proves otherwise. It took me about an hour to write the first 1,000, 50 minutes to write the second 1,000 and only about 40 minutes to write the final 1,100 as I even took a 5-10 minute break to dunk biscuits!
Not a bad day's writing. Now I probably won't do any more until I get back from hols. But it's a nice round number to leave things at.
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