Fifty thousand words in June. That is my target. That’s five followed by four zeroes. Hmm, four is quite a lot of zeroes.
Typically these Writing Months (or WriMo’s if you’re hipper than me) are for getting that damn manuscript finished. Fifty thousand is a decent chunk of words, and in a thirty-day month like June, comes to about seventeen hundred words per day.
Shouldn’t be too hard then.
I’ve already broken rule number one – use this WriMo to work on one manuscript. Yesterday I did that, but today I finished off a short story final draft instead. So now the word count is up there slightly ahead of schedule (4,037 since you ask) but only 1,100 of those are on the manuscript. Sigh.
Still writing being distracted by other writing is better than writing being distracted by anything else. Right?
If you find it hard to get started in writing, it’s because doing almost anything else is preferable. Writers write only when the urge to write overcomes the urge to do something, anything else. Some well-known writer said something along those lines.
Here’s Cory Doctorow on writing in an age seemingly built of distractions: http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2009/01/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html
