Progress is, as ever these days, slow. Ever since my summer holidays were cut short by a month (eliminating exactly the time I’d planned to spend writing, and catching me off guard in the process) I haven’t really been writing well, or much, at all. The half-an-hour a day initiative I’ve tried hasn’t been working out very well. I only ever have time to write in the evenings, and evenings are strangely also the time of day when I am the most tired, after working all day. When I hear my alarm in the evening, I am rarely motivated enough to actually sit down and write something.
Write or Die does help – whenever I use it, stuff gets written. However, I find that I don’t use it very much, precisely because it is so punishing – which is its most obvious drawback. I will most likely continue using it occasionally, but sadly it’s not a catch-all solution for writing every day.
But enough about my problems.
So how are we doing?
The word count has increased by 1.592 words. That’s two hectic half-hour Write or Die sessions, plus miscellaneous. Words get deleted sometimes, too; the actual written word count is often larger. It’s not much, but it is a bit.
The next month…
Wait… what? Yes, you read that right: month. Progress is slow, and I am perpetually busy with work. Writing updates every two weeks means that nothing much happens every update. From now on, there will be longer updates every month instead, with hopefully larger progress increments to report. Right now I find myself recalling every other sunday evening, “oh, right, I have to post an update”, and then I spend a small while writing down the past two week’s progress. It’s haphazard and ad hoc, and I don’t like doing it like that.
I want to make a bit more out of them. I intend to spend a few days writing an update, instead, and mean to accompany each update with a lore post of some kind, however large or small that might end up being with the time allotted. If there are any topics that interest you in particular, say so in a comment, and I might just decide to make the post about that.
Updates will from now on post on the 1st of every month, whichever day that will happen to be. Comments on this decision are welcome, of course – I do listen to the ones who comment. If you appreciate the two-week update schedule a lot, drop a line, and I’ll definitely consider what you have to say.
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