Some Words

It is a little unusual for me to say that I feel like the writing is going well. I haven’t been quite as productive as I sometimes dream of being, but the draft is coming along at a nice clip of about 1000 words a day right now. There are other projects that I’ve been playing around with, but they haven’t been going quite as fast. In my writing fantasies I have a main project that I get about 1,500 words of solid work out of every day, and then do another 1,500 on other shorter projects. I don’t know that many writers actually get that much going on a daily basis, though I’ve heard of a few who do 4,000. Yeah… that’s not going to happen while I’m working 40 hours a week, so it remains a pipe dream.

I think it was Heinlein who said that everyone has one million words of bullshit in them, but then I heard that filtered through Neil Gaiman, and I can’t track the quote. Anyhow, no matter where it comes from, I like the idea. If I’m lucky and I get to count my papers in college, I’ve maybe managed to get something like a third of my bullshit out. I wake up every day thinking about that.

If I can keep this pace up, then the next thing will be editing some of the short stories I find I have sitting around. They could, most of them, use a polish. Then it’s back to rejection slips on the road to perdition.