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It’s been a pretty productive week.

I started it off with by participating in a great Pre-Writing Workshop held by my YARWA Chapter. I never realized how much help it is to have as much of your pre-writing done before you begin working on your novel. I’m not just talking about having a plot outline either. I mean having the whole ball of creativity rolled up on a page before you.

All I can say is WOW…

This week I knocked out about 7k words. I don’t think this is too bad considering most of it was done just yesterday.

If I keep up this pace I might be able to beat my all time writing record of 60 days and crunch it down to maybe 30. I would be very happy and impressed with myself if I was able to crunch the time from start to finish of a first draft down to that amount of time.

With practice I just might be able to crunch it even more in the future.

So why didn’t I do as much writing today as yesterday. Well, as Rumplestiltskin would say, “The day is not over yet, dearies.”

I had to stop this afternoon and get a smidgen of shoveling in. I couldn’t let Mike have all the fun. In the process I had to set myself to be creative outdoors.

My snowman – Huh?

I had a good time making him. My dog Julie thinks his nose and mouth smell great and she can’t wait to give him a kiss on those Twizzler lips.

How are you doing with your word count for the week?

I hope you are having as much fun as I was.

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Are you trying to keep track of the time you spend writing?

I just noticed something today that I have never really paid much attention to. If you are using Microsoft Office and you click on the tab for file you will see in the upper right hand side a side bar that contains all the information you would ever need to prove you are spending time working on your manuscript.

As you can see I have spent a total of 1200+ minutes while working on Along Came Neil. I think this is pretty cool since I tend to not keep track of my writing time – I just write.

I once tried to keep a log, as in time sheets to track my time spent working on my stories. It just wasn’t happening. I could never remember after the second day to log my time on the sheet. It still sits with many blank days, and I know that I have been working and working and working on this and other manuscripts.

So huh – I guess there is a way to make notes of your time.

Pretty cool, I think J