Jeanie Writes Genre

I'm exceptionally sleepy this morning. Under optimal circumstances, this can be a good thing for my writing. It's conducive to daydreaming and falling into that trance-like, meditative state I like to call "story head." Here at the office, though, where I've been doing pretty much all of my writing ever since my home computer crapped out on me last year, there are too many distractions, and so I never quite get there. To really achieve that state, I need quiet. Music doesn't help. On a day when I've had enough sleep, I can put on my headphones and crank up some classical music to drown out the chatter of my early-bird coworkers and go to town on my novel; but on a day like today, it's just not happening. I'm too unfocused, and I just want to put my head down and doze.

Even so, I expect to break the 35,000 word mark this week. Not too shabby, considering that due to schedule weirdness I didn't write anything novel-related in the previous two weeks. So this week is all about getting back into the routine, anyway. And if I can end it on a milestone, that will spur me on into next week. And if I can just get through this chapter, which has been a difficult one to get my head around (normally when that happens I just skip it and move on, but I've reached a point where it's necessary to come back to this one and find out exactly what happens here), then it should be smooth sailing for a while.

The middle part is the hardest part, y'all. And I've still got a lot of middle left to go.

Labels: Hero+Factor, progress+reports