Last week CP and I made a pact to write at least 100 words a day.
When I began this manuscript, I wrote at least 500 words a day. But with one thing and another, over the months, production slipped. So, although 100 seemed paltry compared to what I used to do, or what I could or should do, I thought it a reasonableĀ minimum, small enough not to feel threatening or to spark the dreaded Writer’s Block.
If I’d known I was going to rejoin Curves today, however, I would have held out for only fifty.
I made one Curves circuit, fifteen minutes of pushing and pulling against hydraulic resistance. Twice would have possible but stupid. In the first place, I have no sense of proportion. No shades of gray. It’s all or nothing. If I’d stayed, I would have ended up putting every scrap of energy I possessed into doing battle with those machines. And at the end of the day, I’d have felt worse than I do now.
In the second place, …I’ve forgotten what’s in the second place.
That’s an indication of how fit I am to add 100 words to Molly’s story before I crater.
But a pact is a pact. Is a pact.
Rats.
Does it have to be 100 words on your manuscript? You wrote 100 words on your blog. Just kidding! Keep up the work. It’ll get easier.
Straight From Hel
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Well, that did cross my mind. I would have to go back and look at the language in the contract. But I know what was in CP’s mind, and it had nothing to do with my blog, more’s the pity. I guess I have to do the work for it to get easier, right?
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Good for you for sticking it out, Kathy. Hang in there!
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Thank you, Sheryl. I appreciate the encouraging word. And thanks for visiting.
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Great idea, Kathy. Sometimes, I tell myself: I am going to sit here and stare at my story for five minutes. Five minutes, that’s all. But then, since I’m staring, I read something. Ooh, that’s a little clunky, let me fix that sentence. Then, well, what about the next sentence, I can fix it, and let’s go on down, there’s an idea I had for a scene…and before I know it, an hour has gone by. Or two hours.
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Yes, that’s exactly how it works. The domino effect in writing.
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