flared
Normally this doesn’t happen like this. Slacking away for 48 hours, doing everything from getting drunk to baking three sorts of cake for house guests without even considering sitting at the keyboard and writing something? That’s not me. (Getting drunk and baking cake is me, but not writing somewhere along the way isn’t.)
I guess I was just too tired, or perhaps I’d put more load on myself than I should have. I was staring at my planned workload until November (finishing Vega, one more story written, 2 stories revised, Urchin planned) and when an additional rewrite request came in, I guess I just flared like a match in heat.
The first thing I am doing today is looking at my schedule (by the way, I found Timeglider to be a great tool for lightweight planning) and re-plan everything so that heavy revision takes MUCH more time than writing does, and writing itself takes much more time than I planned when I was writing furiously.
My plans for today: to sit with a large sheet of paper, figuring I’m able to write ~700 new words a day, I am willing take two week days off writing, and stuff happens. Counting in the short stories I write every month, averaging 3000 words per story..put like this, it means that every story normally should take a week off writing!
I have very little idea how much time does rewriting a scene take. I’m thinking lots of time, considering how painful the editing usually is. Probably I will have to create a full-blown plan for rewarding myself and stuff.
But then again, writing a Big Whole Novel is a lot of job. Writing 700-800 words a day is easy. Perhaps I should think about editing this way.
