Real writers can toss off a few thousand words without breaking a sweat, but I can't. I feel you would be surprised by the number of published writers who have trouble with this...I think your strategy of planning around those 500-word sprints is very smart, though. The wordcount meter doesn't care whether you got to 1,666 in several chunks or one burst! Personally, I take breaks at the paragraph level (write a paragraph, read a couple pages in a book) so I suspect it's just a matter of how your brain organizes time.
Also, yeah, I find it extremely difficult to write when sick, even when objectively the form of sick isn't that bad, so kudos to you for the writing you got done.
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Date: 2014-11-02 06:23 pm (UTC)I feel you would be surprised by the number of published writers who have trouble with this...I think your strategy of planning around those 500-word sprints is very smart, though. The wordcount meter doesn't care whether you got to 1,666 in several chunks or one burst! Personally, I take breaks at the paragraph level (write a paragraph, read a couple pages in a book) so I suspect it's just a matter of how your brain organizes time.
Also, yeah, I find it extremely difficult to write when sick, even when objectively the form of sick isn't that bad, so kudos to you for the writing you got done.
Go go go Nancy!