Friday rolled around and I was convinced I couldn’t do it. I’d seen three movies during the week, I’d been busy at work, I went to a company cookout, I went out for dinner once with my wife, and I was beta reading the sequel to Regulation 19 (it’s wonderful, how does this guy do it?). Also, I’d just finished a major point in the story and was about to start something new, which required thinking and even a little research…and I hit my goal anyway. 7k words in 7 days, with spare change for gum if I so desired.
If you have writer’s block, I highly recommend setting goals and making them public. It seems to have worked for me. Who knows what next week will bring?
John L. Monk 
I hate you,
love,
Lindy
Hehe, and I’m confused.
I’m impressed, but I don’t hate you…or love you for that matter
Lust? 🙂
This is probably a good practice to get in to. While I couldn’t tell you my weekly word count, I can tell you that I recently eliminated around 240 instances of the word “had” from a 57,000 word manuscript (cutting the total in half…sometimes you just have to use it). Now I’m working on getting rid of the word “was”, lol.
That isn’t too obsessive…is it?
Dude, that’s great. I know exactly what you mean. I actually plan to add a new tab at the top of my dumb blog where I go over the various things I “sweep” for during the editing process. Extraneous “that” and “had” and missing contractions, for example. Big gratz on the 57k man. That’s huge 🙂