Mish-Mash

Fall is one of my favorite times of the year, and I SO thankful we're finally seeing fall weather. I swear, I thought it would be summer until December. That's just not natural, folks. Of course, today I'm wearing a sweater and roasting! Ugh.

What have I been up to? Editing. Reading. (I finished An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris last week and started No Regrets by Shannon K. Butcher today.) Interestingly enough, writing.

I've been working on several short stories in my spare time. And while I like the characters and storylines, it's like pulling teeth to get anything down on paper. It's beyond frustrating. Then yesterday, when I should have been working at my day job, inspiration struck. I had a name, a face, a specific occupation ... and I rolled with it. Hello, Writer Jana! We haven't seen each other in several months. Nice to know you're not on a permanent vacation!!

This is the point where I should say I'm participating in the 70 Days of Sweat challenge or NaNoWriMo. I should; I know I should. Days like yesterday don't happen for me. Do I wish they would? Hell yeah. My fingers couldn't type fast enough to keep up with my brain. It was amazing!

But (you knew it was coming) word counts stifle my progress.

I'm obsessed with word count, so obsessed in fact, that I check my total after almost every paragraph. I didn't do that yesterday, well, at least until I'd finished the chapter. Then I made a noise and said, "That's all?"

It's difficult to untrain myself from checking the word count. I've been doing it for months and months, so to think I have written 1000 words when I usually have about half that, it makes me feel like Charlie Brown and that damn football. I'm never going to kick it!




However, despite my freak-outs and the fact I failed so miserably during the first 70 Days challenge, I'm doing it again. Wish me luck!!! I will kick that stupid football, I will!