I love to take Nov. 1st off when it’s a weekday so I can stay up until midnight 10/31 and hit the ground running! Unfortunately this year I was so tired that by the time midnight rolled around I could hardly string two words together. I did manage 576 but then called it a night. The words were slow going and it was going to be after 1 AM before I got enough to call it quits, and I had to get the monsters up for school this morning (wakeup call at 6 AM).
Once I got everyone off to work and school, I had a lazy few hours. It was nice to sit and drink coffee in silence while dinking around with email, Twitter, and TV. At least I didn’t turn on Netflix (my ultimate time sink) but I enjoyed watching Ancient Aliens. Finally about 9 or so I turned off the TV, shut down internet, and got to work.
It was still slow. I’d write a bit and pause, check my word count. 300 words. Sigh. But I did finally break 1K and stopped for lunch.
This year, I’m going to try and walk every day, weather permitting. KoKo needs the work (long story, I’ll try to write up a blog post later) and I don’t want to totally chain myself to the computer. I’ve been stressed out lately and I need the exercise! So I walked around the neighborhood a little over 30 mins with the pup and came back just in time to write another 30 mins or so before the first two monsters got home from school (early day out on Friday). That brought my total to 2025 words for the day.
I ended up taking the rest of the night off. I’m mentally still a little out of the game so I don’t want to strain too hard yet. I was hoping for 5K but I’ll take what I got and hope for the best tomorrow.
You had a much better first day than I!
The words I wrote D&E — gone. We had a power serge or something. Evening writing time was trumped by That Man and I going out to celebrate our anniversary. And it is rather slow going this morning, though I do have to say I’m liking the direction the story is going after the restart 🙂