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860 new words this morning on THE EVOLUTION OF ELI, giving me a so-far total of 2163.
As usual, I've found some of the best words come when I'm not much in the mood for writing them. You know those days where your mind's just not in the story, you've no idea what comes next, nor how to convey it on the page, and you'd really rather just do anything but write. However you know the story won't write itself and you already feel like enough of a slackass for not being further on it already, so you sit down and just start writing. And the funny thing is, on those days, once you've got that first new sentence down, that's when the words begin to come more easily. The scene fills itself in, the details flesh themselves out, and before you know it, 45 minutes have passed and you've got nearly 1000 new words. Not only that, but they're good words, words that add to the story where you thought nothing could that day.
I started this morning with what felt like an insurmountable roadblock in my path, but as I wrote, the story worked and the words took care of it and the roadblock got smaller and smaller until 860 words later I'm over it and on to the next roadblock, which is also getting smaller and smaller and I'm only stopping for now because I have to get ready for work. So today was a pretty good day for me and Eli. I think the trick is that sometimes I just tend to forget that, this early in, the words don't have to be perfect, they just need to be there so I have something to work with later. I can't take it one word at a time if I'm not putting words down in the first place. Today just happened to be a day where the words all seemed to be right anyway. It's a good feeling. |
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