50k days 6/7

Gosh. The first week has gone. Only 23 days left!

Interesting couple of days. Work and life have intruded heavily. To be expected I suppose but frustrating all the same.

Friday managed a sad little 148 words, but, better than zero.

Saturday was out most of the day, complete with notebook and pencil. While waiting for a lunch order and in between phone calls jotted down another 399 words. Of course, that puts me way behind the average needed to make 50k BUT I have plenty of time to plan some intensive writing time over the next 22 days and 16 hours... not that I'm counting.

50k day 5

Today was a very messy day. People coming and going, phone calls, work issues. However, in the middle of that, with 3 short sprints, I managed 893 words. Could it be that I can fit writing into my busy life? It seems I can - even in small bites...

50K days 3 and 4/30

Doesn't time fly? Slowed down a little the last two days but now have two stories making forward progress. One, a kidnapped sister with connections to the sex slave trade, the other a female PI with claustrophobia.

849 words for day 3, 882 for day 4 - most of the latter happening in that coffee shop. It must have good writing vibes - downside, it also makes awesome pancakes...

50k 2/30

So, day 2. Have had less time available today and, therefore wrote fewer words. But not that many fewer.

Went to the local shopping centre and tucked myself in a corner of a coffee shop with alphie for an hour and clocked up over 700 words. It was a new environment, surprisingly free of abstractions. Added more later in the day.

Cumulative total: 2716 words

50ks 1/30

Boy am I tired. DH took off for motor racing early this morning, waking me in the process. It seemed like a good idea at the time to get up and get going.

Decided to write on my Alphasmart (Alphie for short) as this provides no internet/email disctractions.

The result 1564 words for the day. Slight under what I hoped for but the last 300 odd were sweated in blood. Still, I'm not unhappy with that. It's the most I've written in one day for a very long time.

Only to begin again...

So, this is it - the big one.

Have been 'simmering' the planned story in the back of my mind all week. Sat down to start this morning and spotted some notes I had made about another possible story. Began playing with that a little and out came the words - don't know how many yet, the day's not over. So maybe I'm not writing 'Let Me Out', the original plan, maybe I'm writing 'My Sister Sue', the intruding story. Maybe I'm writing both. We'll see.

So it ends...

Not with bang but a whimper... One thing and another (excuses, excuses) I managed to add only another 243 words. BUT I now have 4047 words I did not have two weeks ago.