Despite possibly overburdening myself a bit lately and falling prey to exhaustion and sore throat for a day or so, my latest writing regimen seems to be paying off. I’ve been consistently been hitting an average of 900 words per project Monday through Friday, with the occasional run on the weekend as well if time and inclination lets it happen. Add the four blog entries and other small things to the mix, and I’m probably averaging around 11k words a week.
That’s a LOT of words.
Mind you, it’s not all at once, and I’ve got it down to a strict schedule. The Monday-Tuesday blog entries are written on Sunday afternoon, and the Thursday-Friday entries on Wednesday. In My Blue World is written during my Day Job afternoon break, and the Apartment Complex story during the evening sessions. I keep the creative writing separate from the clinical writing Day Job. And I let myself have a breather every couple of hours a day so I don’t run myself ragged.
So yeah, I’ve been keeping busy. Writing two novels at the same time is definitely a trip, and not for the faint-hearted. More than once I’ve opened up one of the project pages and sat there for a minute, trying to remember if this was the magical girl story page or the boy and his alien friend story page.
How do I keep two completely different and unrelated projects straight in my head? Good question. I’m not sure myself. I just manage to keep them separate because I work on them at different times of the day. Since both sessions are in the latter half of the day, this gives me most of the day to come up with a general idea of what I want to write. I also try to write complete scenes, or scenes that will be completed in the next session. Again, this is almost exactly like my process when I wrote the trilogy; I would prep myself during the day so no evening session time would be wasted.
Will I keep this going on the next projects? Who knows. I’d like to, but if I have to adjust it along the way, so be it. As long as I’m going in the right direction.
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