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Q's Writing Qorner

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Day 26 - 17,861 Words

Managed to finish my essay and get it handed in on time AND write my thousand words! Gotta love productive days :) the thing I’m working on was just meant to be a short chapter/drabble thing but we’re now at 6 pages and counting...which ain’t no bad thing of course :) For the rest of the week going to be working on my 10 page essay which is due Friday, which will probably put a bit of a damper on my writing to be honest...

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Day 25 - 16,731 Words

Deary me! So after a whole weekend of technical difficulties, including a raging hangover after somebody came up with the brilliant idea to drink 2 bottles of wine and a bottle of sambuca apiece (totally wasn’t me this time!) I have finally managed to get my laptop back up and running. Which is good because I have 3 deadlines in the next week or so. Should be fun...

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Day 21 - 16,372 Words

Aah today was a day of broken laptops and migraines and all sorts of other things that make it very difficult to do anything. Sometimes you just have to call it a day at 9:30pm and reclassify things as “tomorrow problems”.

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Day 20 - 16,143 Words

Nooo I totally jinxed myself yesterday! I knew I spoke to soon :/ in my defense it was a very busy day today.

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Day 19 - 15,841 Words

Really feel like I'm starting to get into a rhythm with this now. Hope I can keep up this momentum, especially since I have ALL the deadlines for uni over the next couple of weeks! Ah well, I'm sure I'll find the time (somewhere)

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Day 18 - 14,536 Words

Blah so I basically only slept an hour or two last night and I've been feeling crappy all day. Managed to write my thousand words but now I feel like death. Hopefully can actually fall asleep tonight!

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Day 17 - 13,433 Words

Really productive evening, I'm just annoyed that it's bedtime already and I can't keep going. Feeling super sleepy though, my bed is most definitely calling.

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Day 16 - 11,513 Words

Okay so it's Sunday morning now, all I have to do now is clean my room and maybe do some reading for next week's classes...and then I am free to write! Really need to do some catching up.

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Day 14 - 10,970 Words

Another busy day of studying, doesn't leave much time for writing unfortunately! But the weekend is nearly here, gonna get so much done :)

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Day 13 - 10,380 Words

Aaaand we've made it five digits! Today I found out about Camp Nanowrimo and signed myself up, sounds like it should be fun! I've done regular Nanowrimo a bunch of times but never made it to the finish, so I've started planning my Camp Nanowrimo novel now (and in great detail) which hopefully means by the time it comes to writing it I will be able to finish it!

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Day 12 - 8,888 Words

On the one hand, woo look at all those eights! :D But on the other today was another slow writing day :/ hopefully will find some time to catch up later in the week

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Day 11 - 8,478 Words

Hardly did any writing over the weekend :( well I wrote 3 pages of a Swedish essay but it's not really the same. Anyway that's handed in now so I can finally get back to some proper writing (at least until the next round of essays comes up in a couple of weeks...)

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Day 8 - 8,064 Words

Only 333 words today! Which is a nice round number at least, even if it's not a very big one. Still, it's Saturday now so I'm sure I can make it up :)

[maxkirin]

Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don’t be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.

Francesca Lia Block (via fixyourwritinghabits)

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Day 7 - 7,731 Words

A lot more planning and plotting today, as well as finally picking some names for characters so I can stop referring to them as "Peruvian guy", "boss lady" etc. This should make things slightly less confusing at least.

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Day 6 - 6,541 Words

Spent the day scribbling down various plot ideas as they came to me while I was supposed to be working on my essay that's due Friday. Well I can multi-task so it's wasn't too much of a problem :)

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Day 5 - 5,372

Only wrote 655 words today, got a bit distracted in the Google rabbit hole trying to work out which colleges various characters attended at various times and how to get to Greece from Lima via Nigeria...