Sometimes, when I’m running home from basketball (which often seems to be in the rain), I imagine that I’m one of those young, down-on-his-luck basketball players from a Young Adult novel that I read in middle school.
Too bad I didn’t know about this book when I was in middle school. This one was also under the Science Fiction category, keyword basketball, so I’m sure it’s pretty awesome.
Despite watching basketball, playing basketball, working in the garden, and working 11 hours today, I have managed 1000+ words in two of the last four days, and got to 116 today.
Daily average (since 2/18/08): 288
Hear the Grass Grow is now up to 7,697, which means I’m only about 6,000 words away from dropping it to work on something else.
Tracer Photo:
So, I was off on vacation for part of last week and the week before. In the realistic part of my mind, I knew that I wouldn’t have time to come up with 10,000 words, even if I had brought my computer. Okay, maybe I thought somehow it would get done. Note the passive verb there.
I knew I’d have time on the plane, and at least one day while my wife was prepping for the wedding (she was a bridesmaid). And that was exactly the amount of time I had. I think it was a self-fulfilling prophecy kind of thing going on. I probably could have made more time if I’d really tried.
Anyway, in the 6 days we were gone, I got 1,114 words written for part of The Nine Mothers in my little Moleskine notebook. (avg: 186 words/day) Of course, writing by hand slowed me down to about 50% of my speed as compared to using a computer. I kind of thought it would slow me down more than that…
Of course, now that I’m back, I’ve decided to go back to working on a project I’ve been trying to do since high school. It’s gone through at least four different titles, but I believe my official title is now: Hear the Grass Grow, Sound the Ringing Horn. In the past two days (aka this weekend), I’ve written 848 words for that one. I think that’s pretty good considering I went out to lunch, took a nap, and went to a party yesterday, and then today was at church, followed by visiting family, followed by preparing for the coming work week.
I’ll get into more details about HtGG (as I now call it) when I actually get closer to releasing it into the wild.
