Claw

Context: Solid writing sessions this morning, charging towards the end of a specific scene. Stuck now, ’cause there’s a multiplicity of things that could come next, and they all seem to be leading me off into an expansive approach to the narrative that’ll lead me into writing a novel.

I am not writing a novel.

Which is why I spent 51 minutes messing around with the opening part of the next scene and wrote pretty much nothing; I’m about to engage the Kress protocol and go back into the previous scene to chance something and see how if affects the narrative. I need to be bounced off into a new direction.

Session 22.1 (7:56 AM – 8:24 AM)
Word Count: 610

Session 22.2 (8:36 AM – 8:50 AM)
Word Count: 385

Session 22.3 (8:03 PM – 8:54 PM)
Word Count: 191

Total Daily Writing Time: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Daily Word Count Total: 1,186

Total Manuscript Writing Time: 22 hours, 4 minutes
Total Manuscript Word Count: 17,458

Novella Diary, Claw, Day Twenty-One

So last night I stayed up late, writing a moderately detail plan for the scene I wanted to get done this morning. It was a pretty good plan. Laid out a lot of stuff.

This morning I woke up and wrote a completely difference scene. Potentially invalidating all the stuff I’d planned.

This is why I’m not, by inclination or any real practical process, a plotter.

Session 21.1 (7:18: AM -7:28 AM)
Word Count: 107

Session 21.2 (8:03 AM -8:23 AM)
Word Count: 470

Session 21.3 (8:35 AM – 8:57 AM)
Word Count: 542

Total Daily Writing Time: 52 minutes
Daily Word Count Total: 1,119

Total Manuscript Writing Time: 20 hours, 31 minutes
Total Manuscript Word Count: 16,283

Write club. Which, if you’ve been following this diary for a stretch, should give you some context for what’s about to happen. I spent the first hour catching up with Angela and hearing all the latest from the Aurealis Awards in Sydney, and the second stretch finishing up my WQ article in preparation for submitting it later tonight.

With that done, it’s time to dig into some words.

Session 20.1 (12:50 PM – 1:12 PM )
Word Count: 275

Session 20.2 (1:28 PM – 1:37 PM)
Word Count: 296

Session 20.3 (8:48 PM – 9:33 PM)
Word Count: 599

So, none of that went terribly well. This represents tree attempts at the same scene. Finally seem to have hit it, albeit not in a form that I’m happy with. Taking a short break before returning and trying to clock up another four hundred words, just so I can get back into the 1k a day habit.

Session 20.4 (9:49 PM – 10:07 PM)
Word Count: 420
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Total Daily Writing Time: 1 hour, 34 minutes
Daily Word Count Total: 1, 590

Total Manuscript Writing Time: 19 hours, 39 minutes
Total Manuscript Word Count: 15,180