Daily Diary, Day 1005:
First my week in review. As hoped, I definitely did step-up my writing speed. I started out the week with 4380 words written and ended the week with 8083. As promised, I published scene 5, and I am well on my way to finishing scene 6. Since I didn’t write any at all yesterday, this means I averaged 617 words a day (well over my goal of 500 words a day.)
In terms of exercise, I also did well. For the entire seven days, I averaged over ninety minutes of exercise. I also stepped up the amount of time walking. I walked six days, most of them in two, thirty-minute sessions, and perhaps even better, despite increased walking time, I had no set-backs in terms of increased pain (smile.)
Obviously, I would like the next week to be as successful. I hope to keep up the exercise regime and finish and post scene 6, and write and post scene 7. This leaves me with 3 outlined scenes to go (which of course could sub-divide into more if I know myself). The goal is still to get this first draft of the story done by the middle of June.
The reason I didn’t get any writing done yesterday and haven’t started writing yet, today, is that I was busy preparing for a zoom interview on Monday afternoon. Some time ago, I agreed to present a zoom workshop on self-publishing at the Historical Novel Society Australasia Winter Conference workshops. Here is the link to the workshop.
Monday's interview is to help advertise for that event, which is the beginning of next month. I wanted to spend some time organizing my thoughts for the interview, so that I didn’t do my usual, which is to go on and on about a subject I am so very passionate about (smile.)
Unless I’ve thoroughly embarrassed myself, I will provide a link to that interview when it goes live.
Now, after posting this, I am going to start to finish scene 7 and take my second walk. Here is the bloom that caught my fancy in this morning’s walk. The photo doesn’t do justice to its color, which was an incredible velvety red.
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