By HD Silversmith
Okay, so the only writing I did today was non-writing: I grabbed some placeholder text from Wikipedia and a chamber of commerce site having to do with a location in TMG and pasted it into my yWriter5 file.
I highlighted the 700 or so words in yellow so that I can go back tomorrow and actually rework it into my novel.
But in my (academic) universe, that would be called cheating. Academic dishonesty. Technically it added a paltry sum to my word count but that won't sit well with me until after I've worked with the material and written my own prose. So it doesn't really count at all, and anyway, while the word count is a good way for me to focus on a concrete goal, it's just not all about the word count. It's about process and achieving one's goals (really achieving them, I mean -- not faking it).
Thing is, I was obsessing tonight. I've spent 12 hours in front of my computer doing mind-numbing work. And the problem with this is that it left said brain too friend to do anything, and that made me fret. At least yesterday's 12-hour work day consisted of teaching and advising. Those activities, though tiring, are relatively invigorating. Today's activities? Deadening. I thought I'd be able to whip out the work I had to do today. Instead, I have one more task to do tomorrow (on a furlough day, no less) before I can turn to NaNoWriMo activities.
But I suppose that's why I wanted to stay at least a day ahead of my word count schedule -- i.e., for unanticipated periods of slow-down.
It is what it is. Accept it and move on. Zen out.
(Um, I'm not so good at that ...)
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