I wanted to say quickly to read the original Rules of Writing post (in August) if you haven't already before reading Rules of Writing, 2 (yesterday). I had to re-visit their offices after getting a little freaked out about my whole, first chapter deadline. If I need to go back to their offices every now and then I just might compile all those post together, but for now two don't exactly make a compilation. That will need to play out and be left to my own freakiness.
It certainly was a pleasant thing to wake up on Friday morning and have completed the first chapter and it being September 11th instead of October 1st. The later date was, of course, the original deadline I thought I needed to complete the first chapter. I’m glad I got pushed over the line and made to do it earlier. How many days of insanity did that save? For me and others. I should have known it was a ploy. Someone obviously knows I can’t stay behind a line drawn in the sand. I was told after Tuesday that I had been doing so well, I was going to be given an extension on the deadline but I refused it. Uh-uh. No, refused, not going to happen. Thursday it was going to be until I realized I didn’t know how long the chapter was supposed to be, thus the Rules of Writing, 2.
And today…well, not too much going on. I managed a 4 mile run this morning. Regular errands that took longer than expected but I needed some groceries. Then I have been here for the past—oh goodness! that long—two and a half hours. I’ve added another 1150 words to the book. I felt like I had to get the count up to 4000 words and I now have 4285 or so. I know, that inner competitive self rearing its ugly head again. I’ll be beating myself up for it later.
No. Not this time. How can I? That word count doesn’t even include these recent posts.
Wow.
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