Day 14 Writing FayTown Calling

I didn’t get up early this morning so I didn’t write before work. I did write a bit when I got home but only a few hundred words. I found myself looking at this section just kinda…bleh. It’s not working. There are a couple characters I thought I had a great opportunity to flesh out but the more I wrote it…just, eh. It’s late and I’m going to bed. I’ll think about this a bit more and tackle it tomorrow. I don’t think too much will get done, but this weekend will be big. My goal is to finish up the ending. I have it all there it’s just a matter of fleshing it out. Night.

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Day 12 and 13 Writing FayTown Calling

Yeah, it didn’t take long for me to miss a day. To recap, Monday was my eleventh day of keeping a log on FayTown Calling. Tuesday would have been my twelfth except I never got around to writing or even making a record of not writing. It was a busy day, work, child, wife, sleepy. Twelve was a bust but I got up early today (Tuesday) and wrote before work, knocking out the second half of the section I worked on Monday. I’m writing this post before going to bed because it was another long day and I’m exhausted. I’ll be getting up early tomorrow to write though with a second session at night. My wife will be working on a paper and the spawn will be with his grandparents, so a bit extra time. Will update tomorrow. UPDATE: Okay, changed my mind and ended up starting the next section….

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Day 11 of Writing FayTown Calling

Yep, keeping with the same number. (In case there’s any doubt, this is day 11 of the record, not day 11 since start. I’ve been writing this for like a year and a half.) Got home at about 8:30, gave my son his bath, spent a little time with him, and read him a color of his own. Then it was off to beddy-bye (we’re normally much better about that but I had class so this was a late night). I worked on half a section, knocking out a conversation between Virgil and the villain, and started on the action scene that makes up the rest of the section. It’s moving along. This was a scene from the very first draft that I had a lot of fun with so to be able to polish it up and flesh it out with more detail has been a good time. No…

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Day 10 of 10 Writing FayTown Calling

My last day. Tomorrow I return to work, return to an avalanche of emails and things to take care of. This has been a good lesson, helping me to get back in the habit of writing, and more importantly, moving me leaps and bounds toward having FayTown Calling completed. I hate to end it like this, but I didn’t write much today. Getting two hours of sleep will do that. I wrote a scene and cleaned up a few other things, but that was pretty much it. That’s seven-thousand words for the weekend and I’m happy with everything I have. Going forward, I plan on keeping this up. I hope it’s enjoyable for others but really that’s to keep me accountable. I’m not committing to anything, because I can see this steadily falling to the wayside, but it’s something I plan on keeping up. I will have an update on…

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