I feel like these aren't doing much, but it was recommended to me by that book, and I've pledged to do it for 50 updates, that will be almost a year, so I'm going to keep plugging away even if they don't feel immediately impactful. If there's one thing I feel like I'm good at, it's hanging in there for stupid even pointless exercises and relationships and friendships and even jobs, long after I should have quit, and long after others would have quit.
Last week was a good-ish week for writing. I kept up with my writing 300 words a day for every day except one. Why did I miss that one day? I can't remember now. I just know I did.
As I said last week, 300 words is pretty easy. It's a good thing to do thought to keep engaged with the novel. I also did some character sketches on top of my daily writing which was a good exercise. I broke down each character and started working on their descriptions, their motivation, their relationships and the untold back story.
One other thing I've done is (yet again) changed up the beginning. James Thayer in the book of his that I'm reading, The Essential Guide to Writing a Novel, says you have to start far quicker with the challenges. I tried to ease into it in this draft, but I figured out how best to hit it quicker at the beginning. But, I'm not writing it now, I'm just putting down some notes and I'll go back later.
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