And then there was nano

Camp nanowrimo is about to start! I'm pretty crazy excited about it.  I'm staying up past midnight for it, which means deciding whether I want to set these blogs where a day ends at midnight or when I go to sleep. I decided to set the end of a day at midnight, so my first camp words will count towards tomorrow.

Pretty good day. Got a story section sent to a client, and wrote and self published a new short. Took a long walk with my dog in the sunshine and sat on the porch to bask in the warmth for a while. Plus, I ran two miles on the elliptical tonight, so win!

I've been thinking a lot today about what it's like to be living a life my past self idealized. When I thought about where I wanted to be a year ago, this was pretty much it. Writing full time and learning to run with couch to 5k.

I'm not gonna lie, my life is pretty awesome, but it's still life. It's not as glowy as I imagined in my daydreams. I'm still striving for more. I mean, if I sat down and said yup, this is it! Everything I want is achieved! Well, that would be pretty boring, wouldn't it?

I feel like my life hasn't changed all that much. I'm still myself, weirdly enough. I still suffer from the same foibles. I still screw up and write plenty of terribleness. I still get paranoid and obsess about stupid shit. In my daydreams I always imagined me-as-evolved-life-form living this life. It's weird to just be living it as myself.

I wonder what this means for my rich and famous daydream. Will I not ascend to godhood if I make money under my own name and run a marathon? Will need further contemplation.

Word count: 8,402

The Mondays

Starting to get a little more back on track. Woke up this morning and did some revisions before breakfast, then wasted the rest of the morning on the internet. Got moving again and put a thousand words down on my werewolf story, then took a long walk to bask in the warm weather. Got a short story written to self pub, then uploaded it along with another story I've had sitting waiting on my to format it.

After I got that done, I proceeded to waste even more time on the internet until about half an hour ago when I grumpily dragged myself back to contract work and got 700 words done.

I usually have trouble picking up again on Mondays, so no big deal. I'll try to get two contract stories done tomorrow.

I'm thinking I need to cut off my internet time, though. I'm spending so much time on my laptop I'm injuring my fingers. Not good. Maybe set my internet time at an hour or two a day or something and push myself to get more productive things done. Maybe I should actually leave the house at some point?

today's word count: 5,327 words

Hmm, maybe I should start some sort of running tally in April. A month to date, week to date sort of thing. Give myself a better idea of where my averages are falling.

Wow

I managed to do absolutely no work today. I went grocery shopping, watched T.V., did some cleaning, chatted on Camp Nano, and did no work. No words. Nuthin'.

Didn't realize until just now. Hmm. I'm going to pay for this tomorrow.

At least I came up with a cool title, pen name, and cover for a legal thriller. Not that I know anything about laws, I don't have a plot or characters, and I have no idea how to write a legal thriller. But I totally think I'm going to start writing one on Wednesday. Nothing more fun than jumping off a cliff then wondering if you remembered the bungee cord.

Snoring Saturday

Today I decided to make this blog. I want a way to keep track of my daily word counts so I can better assess my averages, and this blog seems like as good a way to do it as any. I’ll record my daily word counts and maybe some musings on freelance life in general.

Who am I? I’m a full time freelance writer who self publishes on the side. My bread and butter is fiction. I love story telling. I don’t even care what medium I use as long as I get to tell a damn good story.

Non-fiction is not my forte, as you’ve probably figured out by now. I’m hoping this blog will also help me improve in sounding less awkward when I’m writing as myself instead of as a princess as she fearlessly battles dragons to save her kingdom.

I’m thinking I’ll write these blog posts last thing before I go to bed as my way to cap off the day and assessed what I’ve managed to accomplish. That sounds plenty fancy, right?

Let’s start with today: Today was a slooow day. I woke up, wrote a little about werewolves, made myself work on some revisions I really didn’t want to do, then visited with family for the rest of the day. I got back to my writing computer around eleven p.m. and tried to get a little done. Poked at revisions and pouted, mostly. (Have I mentioned that I hate revisions?)

Word Count: Probably about 1,000 words. I’ll try to keep better track tomorrow.