August 07, 2003
Slow week
Grar. Tuesday and Wednesday were rough. I spent a lot of time staring aimlessly at the computer screen. I felt pretty stuck. Write Club last night was an enormous help in getting me unstuck, but today has still be kind of slow going. I'm hoping this afternoon will kick off a little faster.
It's like I hit the middle of the story and just got mired in little details, details that I couldn't figure out and didn't want to gloss over. But, after a pep talk with Mer and the prudent purchase of a map of Philadelphia, I feel a little less unstuck. I swear, I think the map purchase was more symbolic than anything else. I mean, I'm really using Philadelphia more as a basis for the setting than the actual setting, but having something concrete to look at gave me a sense of security.
Still at an average of about 1,000 words a day, but hoping to improve that to 1,500 before the month's out.
