My Writing Week: Feb 22-28

Welcome to the first of my weekly "Writing Week" posts. I'm going to try to do these each week in case they help inspire other writers.

I track my daily output on my Google calendar. Each day I aim to write at least 100 words on my novel (I write those by hand in my Master Notebook) and to transcribe that work into Scrivener where it waits for the big edits that will come when this draft of the book is complete.

According to Google, here's what this week looked like:

Sunday Feb 22

2pm -- wrote for 45 minutes, roughly 200 words

Monday Feb 23

845am -- brainstormed the novel timeline for an hour

430pm -- joined the Yale Women Writers Group on Zoom for 90 minutes

600pm -- transcribed 900 words of earlier work that I hadn't gotten around to typing up yet for an hour

Tuesday Feb 24

915am -- wrote for 45 minutes, roughly 200 words

430pm -- typed up all outstanding work, one hour

Wednesday Feb 25

10am -- lots of whining, wrote roughly 200 words in half an hour

215pm -- typed up all outstanding work

6pm -- had dinner with a writer friend

Thursday Feb 26

1130am -- wrote roughly 250 words, half an hour

2pm -- typed up those words, half an hour, ran a COMPILE in Scrivener -- the mss is now 4300 words since Feb 20!

Friday Feb 27

Sick with headache and nausea

Worked on the March newsletter in my Master Notebook while in bed

Saturday Feb 28

Blogging ;)

Going through old notes in the February Master Notebook that I finished today. Planning to get my 100 words done today no matter what but I'll keep you posted!