Over the dip and almost home…

It’s looking like the first draft is going to exceed the 42,000 word goal I’d set myself.  I was busy busy, with work, home, schooling, scrimshaw and more taking my time from writing, hitting The Dip that Seth Godin speaks of, avoiding committing to writing a couple of scenes yet knowing they had to be done.  As the weekend loomed closer I worked into the night, using the pomodoro timer and sticking with it, moving from writing to cooking dinner, writing to answering emails, writing to writing the scrimshaw.com newsletter, to experimenting with a couple of audio files of the “Survivalist Log” (preliminary mp3 here – or you can read it here).

Sometimes I think I take the “Idle hands” proverb a little too far, between parenting, writing, scrimshaw, work, garden and house, I don’t have idle hands unless I’m asleep.

The scenes I was in the dip about were several actions scenes right in a row, toward the end of the book, although there is one more ~5,000 word chapter to go before it gets put in a drawer for a few weeks and C.D. and I plot out the beats for the next book or two or three.

We’re at 41,888 words, averaging 1,000 words per hour with some minor interruptions.