Starbucks Anonymous

Is there a group for Starbucks addicts? I need one.

Actually, I'm not so much addicted to Starbucks as I am to having a place to write where there's nothing else to do but write. Once I get my drink (and maybe a cookie?) my only task is writing. I can't wander off to do laundry or tidy up or pat the cat or any of the other things that often distract me.

Perhaps I need to figure out how to make my little writing room such a place. That space (technically the open concept dining room) is exclusively reserved for writing, but it's not the same as Starbucks. I will work on why that is and how to fix it.

BUT...

Writing
- I wrote 3575 words today! This is good, but it's even better when I admit that I got zilch done in the morning and so that was all from about 2-4:30pm. Not bad at all.
- I know exactly where I'm going when I next get to write Blueberry. This is lovely. :)

Fitness
- I did 22 minutes of boxing with the Wii. I'd have done more but I haven't done it for a while and sometimes I end up SORE the next day. I'm already heading in that direction.
- I bought groceries. Most of them are even good for me!

Housework
- um... I put away the groceries I bought. :)

So far so good for this week. Tomorrow's kind of a writing-related write-off, since I'm doing a long training run in the morning and then going to the dentist, but I hope to at least review Aardvark's query letter and synopsis so I can send its queries on the weekend.

It's 8:30pm and I am WIPED OUT. Gonna watch a bit of hockey and then head to bed!

Three Thousand Blueberries

Well, three thousand words on Blueberry.

I used to do daily "here's what I was going to do and what I actually did" posts here, and I eventually stopped because... well, I'm not sure why. But I miss it.

2010 is my year of NOT doing all my time tracking and word count analysis and all that stuff that made me even more deranged than usual. (When you spend time, serious time, trying to decide whether driving to Starbucks to write counts as writing time, you need to stop tracking.) But I want to document my progress, and where better than here?

SO...

Writing
- wrote exactly three thousand words on the new book. (It always amuses me when I get round numbers without even trying.)
- updated my character description lists for what I've written so far (so I don't later have to look through everything to figure out, say, whether Crystal wears makeup or not) (she does, in case you were wondering :)

Fitness
- ran outside, fortunately before it started snowing. I haven't been outside much and it was surprisingly nice.

Housework
- laundry. Lots, but not nearly enough. How Mr. W and I manage to generate so much laundry is a mystery to me. How people with children EVER have clean laundry is an even bigger mystery.


I'm making this up as I go along, but I think on Mondays I will include a "what I plan to get done this week" and then on Fridays I'll see what happened. I need a bit of accountability, I think!

This week
- two days on Blueberry
- three days doing the very final re-read of Aardvark and assembling its queries, which are going out on the weekend! (Ah, the query process. How I have NOT missed you.)
- dentist appointment for cleaning. (Boo. I want to cancel SO much but I will behave.)
- two more runs and at least two non-runs (swimming, Wii boxing, or whatever I feel like)

I want to revamp the whole blog, and I will, but not at any time where it can take me off Blueberry. My problem (if I may pretend I have only one) is that I actually dislike writing the first draft. Weird, huh? I LOVE the planning stages and editing, but I find the first draft exhausting. Not hard to do - the words seem to fall from me sometimes - but really tiring, and so it's hard to make myself sit down and do it. But I did it today, and I will do it tomorrow, and when I keep that up for 6 weeks or so, I'll have a book!

And then I'll get to edit it. :)

Oh, and remember I said I was going to blog daily in February? I didn't. :)