I am currently on a 21 day posting streak, which, if I finish this post in the next 16 hours will be extended to 22. The burning question is: Did I plan this unprecedented streak?
Definitely not. I'm not a planner. I usually write when inspiration comes to me or if I have to (like today, if I want to keep the streak going).
I'm always amazed that some writers can write 10K words or more in a day, because I often struggle to get a couple of hundred. I'm a slow writer. Sometimes I'll get stare at the screen and wonder about how a certain scene will play out or how I can negate the contradiction I've just created. A good day for me is to get 500 words done in my current project.
Then yesterday, after writing a blog post about the Olympics, I realized I had just written 496 words (let's call it 500). Now, I could have thrown up my arms and tapped out for the day, but I still had a blog post to write (200 words) and then hit the work in progress for an hour or two (let's call it an hour, because two hours is a long time to write...).
600 words later I still had some emails to write (200 words), an interview to revise (100 words), a shopping list to write (30 words), and a couple of Google searches (20 words)—
Okay, the last few are pushing the word count, but it does put my over 1600 for the day, which is what the National Novel Writing Month suggests to hit the goal of a 50K word novel.
But, I'm counting them. So there.
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Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, and a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words.
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