My focus has been shot the last few days. Everything has felt like too much effort. I actually spent about two hours this morning literally just sitting and basically staring into space. Why do that? It’s so pointless. Wtf me right? I haven’t even been posting the facts/challenge in the NaNo cabin last couple of days because I’ve felt so blah. I am actually sorry for that.

I was alright last week when I was doing about six things at once. I still think I could have done more, and that I could have done things faster, but things at least got done. This week? Not so much. It’s like if I only have one non-critical thing to do, my subconcious decides it’s naptime and doesn’t want to do anything more strenuous than laying on the couch watching TV (I wish I was joking, I know I’m awful).

Anyway, this morning I opened up my fic for the Rumbelle Vacation event. I’ve been trying to write it all week, it’s not going to be the first fic in the world and it’s certainly not going to be the longest, there’s literally no reason to have procrastinated on it this badly. It got to about 2pm and I still hadn’t done anything so I was like screw it, I’ll try something really weird.

I have two monitors so I opened up a video game in one window and kept the fic open in the other. I chose a boring activity in game (archaeology and leveling pets) so there’s a lot of flying around, not much doing anything and nothing that I can’t ignore if I get a flow going.

I wrote 1k in an hour. When I’m on form I can do twice that, so it’s not anything to jump up and down about, but it’s more than I’d written all day. Actually it’s nearly as much as I’ve written all month (this month I tell you). So I have no clue why I’m writing all this down and you are probably wondering the same (if you’ve bothered reading this far) but I just found it amusing.

Another few hundred words and I’ll have this fic finished, which given that I have to post on Tuesday is just as well heh 🙂

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So I read all of that and so sorry you’re feeling like this…

BUT OMG??!!! you can write 2k/hour? Like holy shit you’re speedy! When things are good I can write ~1k per hour… I stare off into space for long periods at a time, the type then repeat. I wonder what focus like that would be like???

Seriously, that impresses the crap out of me.

But stepping away from my shock and awe, sorry you’re feelin’ less than stellar. Big hugs!

Anyway, I haven’t done 2k in an hour in a long time, I might be capable of it but it doesn’t happen very often. Besides it’s not really about speed, it’s about the individual writers process. Like you probably put a great deal more thought into what you write, so you probably produce a much more polished first draft. I’m very much run, run, run and then I often wind up with a mess I have to fix. That’s what works for me. I find blank pages harder to deal with.

I know some people that write a lot faster than I do. Writing is a journey. It’s better with friends because who doesn’t like company and encouragement? But everybody’s journey is still different *hugs* I hope that made sense. If you want to try and get faster than time yourself. Do sprints of say 15 minutes at a time and track how many words you write. Over time I promise the numbers will go up, but only do that if you want. Like I said it’s not for everyone. Only do what works for you! 🙂