Apparently, I'm no longer monomaniacal about writing. I let family and Christmas and business take precedence over the last ten days.
The first few years of writing, nothing stopped me. Nothing. I was so obsessive that I was barely aware of my surroundings at times.
I'm trying to settle into a more moderate pace. 2000 words a day is by most standards a pretty big number. Counting working days and days off, I probably spend 200 days a year writing new material, and another 100 days a year rewriting. Say...400K words a year.
That's a big number, at least six novels worth a year. Not all of them turn into books. Not all are finished. Not all are given a second draft.
So anyway, I'm going to try to settle into a more moderate but consistent pace, also include a little more time for rewriting that I've done in the past.
I've got five novels more or less finished that I'm proud enough of to publish. I'm almost done with a sixth.
That's a pretty good result.
I'm working today at the store, and tomorrow I'm going to attempt to do all the red-tape stuff that's been piling up, and then on Tuesday, get back to writing full time.
And NOTHING will be allowed to get in the way.
The first few years of writing, nothing stopped me. Nothing. I was so obsessive that I was barely aware of my surroundings at times.
I'm trying to settle into a more moderate pace. 2000 words a day is by most standards a pretty big number. Counting working days and days off, I probably spend 200 days a year writing new material, and another 100 days a year rewriting. Say...400K words a year.
That's a big number, at least six novels worth a year. Not all of them turn into books. Not all are finished. Not all are given a second draft.
So anyway, I'm going to try to settle into a more moderate but consistent pace, also include a little more time for rewriting that I've done in the past.
I've got five novels more or less finished that I'm proud enough of to publish. I'm almost done with a sixth.
That's a pretty good result.
I'm working today at the store, and tomorrow I'm going to attempt to do all the red-tape stuff that's been piling up, and then on Tuesday, get back to writing full time.
And NOTHING will be allowed to get in the way.