Good news or bad news?
Bad news, I wrote nothing for WooWriMo on December 27th and 28th (no excuse). But good news, I wrote 1,715 words for December 29th and 1,722 words for December 30th.
Today I got distracted by something stupid– literally. I got distracted while googling (yep I’m so creative) stupid pet tricks. Essentially, I needed one of my character’s dogs to do some stupid/useless trick so I got quite sidetracked watching lots of “stupid pet tricks” videos on David Letterman. In the end, it was useful, because I did get inspiration. However, I got my inspiration in the second video I watched, and considering I probably watched 8 to 10 videos… you can see the problem. Wow. All of this posting for WooWriMo shows me that Youtube is a big distraction from my writing! I honestly wouldn’t have guessed, I would have thought it would be Facebook. I guess it is because I can rationalize that I am on Youtube to do “research.”
Also, I do not think I have mentioned this yet, but I am actually keeping track of my “WooWriMo progress” through a word document on my computer. I am just mentioning this for posterity– I found this really useful because I can “go back in time” and see exactly what sections I wrote (I daily copy/paste what I wrote into that document under a date header) as well as see the exact word count for that day. But perhaps this is really only relevant someone like me (a perfectionist who started WooWriMo with a 30,000 word novel-in-progress).
p.s. sorry for the insane amount of parenthesis (ironically, I didn’t use a single set of parenthesis in my WooWriMo writing today)