Words/hour was way up this month; I think that was due to writing a novel instead of short stories. I was doing a good job keeping up my writing streak until Christmas hit. I’m ready to start a new streak with the new year! How about you?
WORDS WRITTEN: 4823
HOURS SPENT WRITING: 12
WORDS/HOUR: 401.9
As is our custom, we rang in the New Year by watching a time travel movie.
This year’s selection: the Dr. Who 50th anniversary episode, the Day of the Doctor.
How did you celebrate the New Year?
The Tomtes are celebrating getting a new tree this year.
I hope you have many things to celebrate.
The Tomtes are hoping I find some glogg for them next year.
I hope you have many things to look forward to.
Merry Christmas!
As the fog rolled in this morning, it made a neat halo around the Moon. The first picture shows Jupiter above the Moon; the second zooms in to try to capture the dynamic range I experienced in person – I could see both the lunar features and the fog halo.
If Comet ISON had survived its solar flyby, today was the first day we were supposed to be able to see it. Although it appears that what survived is either rubble or small, we braved the early morning cold to try to catch a glimpse of what is left. No joy. It was too dim to be seen from Friendswood, Texas.
Although I did not participate in NaNoWriMo, I did start a new novel and write two and a half chapters this month. I’m pretty pleased with my stats, where I wrote every day, averaged more than an hour a day, and wrote at a pace that suggests I could write a novel a year.
WORDS WRITTEN: 8489
HOURS SPENT WRITING: 33.1
WORDS/HOUR: 256.5
As Murphy would have it, we’ve had heavy clouds and rain this week, so we weren’t able to look for Comet ISON. The clouds finally blew away this morning, so we braved the cold morning to see if we could spot the comet through the colors of the sunrise. We didn’t spot the comet, but we did see Saturn hovering above Mercury. It was quite striking, don’t you think?
To all those participating in National Novel Writing Month: good luck!
In spite of having a novel-length project ready to start, I will not be participating this year. This year is the first year I’ve tracked both words and hours, so I know that writing the 1700 words a day required for NaNo would be a full time job for me, and I already have a full time job [1]. Further, I know that I have never written that many words in a day, even when I was deeply involved in a project. So reaching the goal would require a radical change in my writing process, and it’s not a change that I either need or desire to make.
However, since it is National Novel Writing Month, I will be working on the novel-length project, plodding along at my 250 word/hour pace. I won’t be crossing the finish line with all the NaNo hares, but I hope to cross it eventually, turtle-style.
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[1] And I am very relieved that the government reopened so I could keep my job. If the government had stayed closed, I was planning on making NaNo my full time job and seeing how that worked out. I’m glad to not be doing that experiment.
I finished the first draft of the story I started last month and started editing it. I had hoped to be finished editing it by now; hopefully that will be done today.
WORDS WRITTEN: 2860
HOURS SPENT WRITING: 11.7
WORDS/HOUR: 244.4
I am very pleased that Goldfish Grimm’s Spicy Fiction Sushi has published a story of mine called “Have You Looked in a Mirror Lately?”. You can find it here:
http://www.goldfishgrimm.com/back-issues/issue-11-secrets-connections/looked-mirror-lately/
“Goldfish Grimm’s Spicy Fiction Sushi” is an awesome name for a magazine, don’t you think?
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