Day 10: A new record

Daily goal: 4,140 words/day.

Today: 8,296 words (a new record)

186 Pages Edited so Far

Draft 2 Goal: Increase Conflict and Suspense

"I really don't want to do this today. I just don't want to fucking do this today!" I say aloud, mock-crying. It's 4:34pm. I have one scene left till I'm done.

The quality of rough draft writing I have to edit matters. Today, the original writing I had to work with was awful, and I wrote entire scenes from scratch and deleted a bunch of stuff that just didn't work at all, and I wondered if I was even cut out to be an author.

But then my final scene of the day (the one at 4:34, it's now 5:11pm, update, it's 7:29pm and I kept working for a while) was well-written. In fact, it's utterly delightful and witty and deep and now I'm over my quota, going down more pages, editing it further and further and having a delicious time with it.

I'm totally cut out to be an author! I'll be a great author! I'll be the best author the world has ever seen!

Until tomorrow, when I have to edit another shit scene, and I'm suddenly trash again.

Anyhow, I am exhausted.

Tomorrow I'm going to see my college bestie. I'll be out of commission for 4 whole days. See you on Tuesday!