well, this got unexciting fast.

So here’s the deal: I have a tendency to think I’m not writing. There are a couple of stretches in my life where I honestly thought I hadn’t written a damn word, until we moved and I went through all my files and found all the things I’d been working on.

That said, I don’t do well with daily word goals. I do better with page goals (when working on a book, I try to do 3-5 pages a day), but even then they need to be guidelines more than rules. Recently it’s been a lot of short stuff, so my goals are usually write the scene with the monkey and the hole punch or dear god, untangle that paragraph before it kills us all.


But in order to not beat myself up, I do need to keep a log. And I thought I’d go ahead and attempt to do that here on LJ, because why not. I’ll probably link to it on WP, but not mirror it.

We’ll see how it goes. If you scroll past, I will not blame you.


Laura’s Writing Log

So, Laura, what did you do today?

No actual writing, but I did slog my way through a chunk of the last research book. I hate this book, have I mentioned?

What did you do that you’re telling yourself is work?


Putting stuff on Springpad. This is my foreseeable future. Once it's there, I have to decide how to tag it. Oh frabjous day!

Anything interesting to report?


Nope.