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.