24 May 2006
Feeling better already
Once I made the decision to scrap the experiment with the new POV character, I immediately felt better. I moved the file I'd been working on to the backup folder and moved the old file into the current folder and got going. For the first time in awhile, I got my day's words without straining too much.
Yay.
No, seriously. I don't like having to strain for my words. It's not something I'm used to. I'm used to being able to crank out the words. In my old days on Forward Motion (admittedly this was back when I had a job and was relatively stress-free) we'd do word wars (where we would be together in the chat room and write and for maybe an hour or two the only real talking would be postings of word counts and the occasional snippet) where I'd regularly do 2k in an hour. So with that benchmark it has been extremely frustrating to only just get my daily goal of 1k after two or even three hours.
I guess that new POV was annoying me more than I realized. As I said yesterday, I've learned something - stick to the outline.
Whoa. I just had a brain-flash. That SF thingy I was outlining last week has four major POV - I wonder if that desire for an extra POV was an early manifestation of that SF idea. Hmm. Anyway, that's out of the way, both of them. Hopefully I can keep rolling today.
Yay.
No, seriously. I don't like having to strain for my words. It's not something I'm used to. I'm used to being able to crank out the words. In my old days on Forward Motion (admittedly this was back when I had a job and was relatively stress-free) we'd do word wars (where we would be together in the chat room and write and for maybe an hour or two the only real talking would be postings of word counts and the occasional snippet) where I'd regularly do 2k in an hour. So with that benchmark it has been extremely frustrating to only just get my daily goal of 1k after two or even three hours.
I guess that new POV was annoying me more than I realized. As I said yesterday, I've learned something - stick to the outline.
Whoa. I just had a brain-flash. That SF thingy I was outlining last week has four major POV - I wonder if that desire for an extra POV was an early manifestation of that SF idea. Hmm. Anyway, that's out of the way, both of them. Hopefully I can keep rolling today.
# posted by Steven @ 10:20 AM 
