Fast Fiction

Today I did a little writing warm-up before my writing out session. I headed over to The Coffee Table for about 90 minutes of writing before heading up to Vromans:

time..running tally..words…words/minute
12:15…..35,750…...575…..38.33
12:30…..36,285…...535…..35.67
12:45…..36,867…...582…..38.80
13:00…..37,387…...520…..34.67
13:15…..37,986…...599…..39.93
13:30…..38,205…...219…..14.60

I had a cup of coffee and a chocolate croissant. I didn’t really want the croissant. I wasn’t hungry. I had a nice breakfast of leftover baked yam with some spiced brown sugar butter.

Then at Vroman’s we sat as some sort of display of novel writing activity - like the people who pull taffy in the front window at the boardwalk or the donuts at Krispy Kreme. This is how novels are made:

time..running tally..words…words/minute
14:30…..38,486…...281…..18.73
14:45…..38,700…...214…..14.27
15:00…..39,275…...575…..38.33
15:15…..39,552…...277…..18.47
15:30…..39,841…...289…..19.27
15:45…..40,287…...446…..29.73
16:00…..40,556…...269…..17.93
16:15…..41,158…...602…..40.13
16:45…..41,456…...298…..19.87
17:00…..42,108…...652…..43.47

I had a cup of bad gunpowder green tea. And I also brought along a little baggie of chocolate which included some mixed milk and dark Wilbur buds and some organic chocolate that my sister-in-law brought for Thanksgiving.

The total for the day was 6,933. I should have gone for a squared off 7K, but I figured I got to 42,000 and it was raining and I only paid for four hours on the meter, so I headed home.