Yeah, I did.\u00a0 3,841 words over the past two days–but since I only wrote about 300 words yesterday, that means I did about 3,500 words today.\u00a0 That brings the total word count of this novel up to 41,251 so far.\u00a0 Holy. Cow.<\/p>\n
It seems like whenever I write for only ten minutes, I find it really hard to write very much, since my mind isn’t really into the story, or I’m a little bit confused as to what’s happened in the last few pages, or maybe I’m just not all that motivated when I first sit down.\u00a0 But once I reach a critical mass on the page, things just spill out like a flood.\u00a0 After a while, I don’t even have much of a desire to do anything else.\u00a0 I’ve just GOT to finish that one scene–and after it, another one–and then another–yeah, and it just keeps going.<\/p>\n
It started yesterday, when I worked a little bit on that one scene that had got me excited a while before.\u00a0 But I didn’t have much time to work on it, since I was on campus and had a couple of appointments to go to.\u00a0 Man, I am CRAZY busy!\u00a0 So then, all evening, I wanted to write, but instead I was responsible and worked on my homework.\u00a0 Then, midnight came, and I gave a friend of mine a ride back from his girlfriend’s house (she lives a couple of miles away, south of campus, and hey, I feel bad that they always walk, so I give them rides.\u00a0 Don’t worry, they’re not taking advantage of me at all, he helps out with gas all the time, and we’re actually good friends by now).\u00a0 Then, I was hanging out with my Arab friends, and of course that takes time, but I was enjoying myself and it was good to see them, we ate at Betos and relaxed for a while), and then, when I got back, it was 1:30 am, and I was pretty tired.\u00a0 Considering the fact that I needed to get up at about 7:15 am, I decided to go to bed without writing.<\/p>\n
But really, in my heart of hearts, I just wanted to write in this novel of mine.<\/p>\n
So then, today, all day I had this strong desire that hadn’t been satisfied the night before.\u00a0 I took about an hour of free time in the morning and used it to write.\u00a0 It was awesome!\u00a0 So much fun!\u00a0 I finished the one scene that was really exciting to me, then had a good idea for another scene to happen just before this one.\u00a0 But…other duties called me elsewhere.\u00a0 So then, I went and fulfilled that duty, came back, tried to do some homework…but just wasn’t all that motivated.\u00a0 I accomplished a little, but not too much.\u00a0 Went to lunch, then classes, then took a nap in the aptly named wajibaat cave (the little room with the green couches in the HLRC–it’s kind of the Arabic student’s hangout place), then went to a computer and sat down…and wrote for two hours.<\/p>\n
But then, just as I was REALLY getting into it…had to go again.\u00a0 And again.\u00a0 And after dinner, I TRIED to do my homework–I really did!–but man, it was hard to find the motivation.\u00a0 I did some, accomplished a bit, procrastinated a bit, the usual, but then around midnight I gave into the temptation to write…and I finished this scene just a few minutes ago.\u00a0 And MAN.\u00a0 I am happy!<\/p>\n
I feel bad that I’m falling behind a bit in doing my Arabic homework.\u00a0 However, I don’t feel all<\/em> that bad because I know that my language skills really are improving.\u00a0 I can feel it.\u00a0 So, really, even though I didn’t finish everything that I was supposed to do, I’m doing the stuff that counts.\u00a0 And other than my Arabic class, I’m not all that worried.<\/p>\n Life is good, man!\u00a0 And I freaking just wrote 3,500 words in a single night!\u00a0 At this rate, the novel will be finished by winter break!\u00a0 Man, I’ve got to slow down, otherwise I’ll have to start a new project for English 318!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yeah, I did.\u00a0 3,841 words over the past two days–but since I only wrote about 300 words yesterday, that means I did about 3,500 words today.\u00a0 That brings the total word count of this novel up to 41,251 so far.\u00a0 Holy. Cow. It seems like whenever I write for only ten minutes, I find it… Continue reading I…splurged today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-the-lost-colony","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-19","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}