Comments on: DTD: 333 more words take me over 20K

By: Glynis Smy

Glynis Smy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:25:49 +0000

300 today, plus my blogs and a challenge for a friend. A productive day. Enjoy your 4th of July weekend, all US writers

By: Don

Don — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:57:36 +0000

Well after a slow start started at 3941 ended at 4978 over a thousand words. Get to maybe eight thousand by Sunday. Hear’s hoping. Story development is going well, talk to you tomorrow.

By: Shirls

Shirls — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:34:19 +0000

Holly, this is a splendid idea. I think I know what is stopping me from writing: it’s my addiction to audiobooks. I have two going at once – one in the kitchen for while I’m cooking and cleaning up and one at the other end of the house in my bedroom so I can listen while I’m dressing, bathing, making the bed etc. No wonder I never get to think about my own story. As you know, a lot of story design goes on long before a word gets written. And this is just not happening while I’m happily liistening to other people’s stories. So for July I’m going to commit to output instead of input.

By: Red_Dot

Red_Dot — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:51:24 +0000

Since my job intells hours of downtime. I have decided to write a book. I am so Glad I found her site, All the mistakes I am walking into, I feel nudged through with her incouragement. I found that I tend to write about 2 pages of word a day. About 1200 words. I finished CH1 already. I don’t know how the book will turn out, but I am going forward. It helps a lot coming to the blog seeing actuall numbers of a real writer, very inspiring. Oh, thanks for the free download of your first book, reading it this weekend.

By: Anambika

Anambika — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:47:33 +0000

It’s time you realized that. Writing should be fun, holly. I have been following you for about 3 months now, and I find most of your posts mention a word or two, if not entirely, about number of words. Is it not enough if we just keep a small little tap on it? Perhaps you had adapted the use of word measurements as a tangible representation of your accomplishment for the day? Thanks to you, even I do check the number of words that I write, every 5 minutes, but my focus primarily stays on the plot movement, scenes, characters, …
I also take this opportunity to thank you … (Yuck, it’s too formal) thanks holly, for all that you have on your site. When I started writing three months ago, I had all the doubts in the world. The foremost was, am I going about it the right way? And when I visited your website, read through it, it gave me enormous amount of confidence. It reinforced my believes, and put new ones into my mind.
As a novice, I ask you this, do we need to have such obsession over the number of words that we write?

By: LisaM

LisaM — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:55:27 +0000

Glad that DTD is going well and that you’re loving every moment you spend with it.

Enjoy your long weekend!

By: djmills

djmills — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:53:33 +0000

I hope you relax and enjoy every precious moment of your son’s visit. Your story can wait and so can we.

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:43:10 +0000

I agree with Andrea. If I don’t write at least 500-1000 words in a sitting, my writing comes out choppy.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:48:35 +0000

Don’t you need some time to get back into your story, when you start to write?

By: Tori

Tori — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:13:48 +0000

For some reason your words really hit me. I guess I thought that REAL writers spend their entire day writing. I thought that each day they would end up with fifteen to twenty pages done…but it took me this long to really think about it. I DON’T need to write a mind boggling amount of pages to get work done, to love what I write. I am so happy you made me see that.