Kick Starting the Process
After struggling yesturday saw me writing 4,000 wordds and tip over the 30 k boundary – this made me very happy.
I then stopped and did some background reading so that today at the write-in in Cheltenham I would be raring to go. Our ML was sick (the person who organises stuff in our Nano region but I didn’t know this as I leave straight after the school run. I’ve gone along to a few of the other write-ins and found that I need to turn up a bit early to get the writing process going before people to talk to appear. I live in an isolated valley so when there are people to chat to I tend to – er… CHAT.
Anyway today I sat there in the Star Bucks from 9:30 till 2 with packing laptop up for loo and more coffee trips – no one else turned up and this was a little upsetting for me as feeling part of a communiuty with writing gives me sort of co workers and I look forward to meeting poeple.
The other issue is that not knowing everyone on the list of people who could turn up I spent alot of time looking expectantly at the people coming up the stars leading to an incident with a middle aged man.
But mainly what happened is I sat there with no note book, no back ground reading and just the laptop – the result was by the time I left the coffee shop I had 5,000 odd words and an almost completed chapter six!
I sort of want to make it a round 6,000 before bed but not sure if thats going to happen. However I have noticed that the more words I write in day the lower my rate of actually writing is which is interested.
When I got home I found I had a message from the ML apologising for not being there.
I’m going in again tomorrow just in the afternoon this time as I have a poetry reading in the evening – I am hoping that I can repeat the process – I went and asked in the Costa’s in the bookshop weather they had plugs and where happy for me to plug in my laptop – they said yes – I sort of prefer writing there so I think thats where I’m going to be 🙂
Posted: Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 @ 10:10 pm
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