Writing Update: Returning to Reality
October 5, 2009 in Blogging, Novel, On Writing
Heading back to full-time work tomorrow with a sense of fear, dread and anticipation. What type of hours will I be working? Will I be able to control my hours even if I wanted to? How much time will I have to write?
It’s been so long that I can’t even remember what it’s like anymore. I’ve had enough of a break to know that’s it time to return to the real world and put in some hard work. The aim is to make some money while I continue to work on my writing and the novel, with the intention of completing the first draft by the end of the year. I haven’t really done as much as I would have liked during this supposedly ‘free’ period over the last few weeks. As I said, there’s an astounding amount lot of things to do when there’s nothing to do.
I believe the word count is currently somewhere between 130,000-150,000 words (stupid NewNovelist 2.0 program with no word count!). Judging by present progress, it’s not looking good. Even if I do 50,000 words a month (something I’ve never come close to accomplishing) I might still not finish the first draft by 31 December 2009.
Oh well…I’m hoping that with a return to routine, maybe I can write on a more stable basis and with more focus when I do sit down to write. As for my blogs (this one and Pacers Pulse), I’ll just have to take things as they come.
Fingers crossed.
At least you aren’t having rolling writing blackouts like myself. My attempt at blogging is basically failing miserably. I enjoying letting the world know my story, but getting people to read it is not my forte. I still continue because it is a release for me. My hat goes off to you on the novel. I am afraid I am limited to short blog entries in the creative writing department
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I started off the same way as you – a blog to act as a release, a creative outlet…keep up the work and things will come together!
Work. What is that? I’ve heard of it but I haven’t seen it…. Sort of like “dust” in the golden compass.
You can always use the old way of counting words: if you are using a standard format, then just mutiply 250 (average words per page) by the number of pages you have= your word count.
I used adobe acrobat reader to write and almost every feature is there…. EXCEPT for page numbering! Which (like word count) is essential to manuscript writing. So I feel your pain mate.
Haha
You can use Adobe to write?? I always thought it was just for PDFs! Just shows how much I know!
Yeah, adobe is great, I like it so much, and because it is hosted on the acrobat site, all your files are online instead of a pc, so I can access them and edit/write more wherever I am from any pc. I have all of my stuff on my adobe account now so If anything were to happen to my pc, I know the files are safely there. Oh and when you are done say with a manuscript, then you can turn them into PDF files right there too.
https://acrobat.com/#/bw/BuzzwordBegin