So sorry, my darlings, especially after all your kind New Year messages. But it is deadline day tomorrow, and I have been in a work storm. Apart from walking Stanley the Dog, and a very happy hour with this person -
- who was at her absolute crest and peak of sweetness and dearness and love – I have been at my desk from nine until nine. I NEVER do this. But a combination of mania and caffeine drove me on, and I seem to have written 4170 words.
My friend The Man of Letters would be horrified. He thinks one should not do more than about 800 a day. (He sends me emails saying: Hope you are not galloping too fast. Which I blithely ignore, even though he is one of the wisest men I know.) Graham Greene said 500 was the right amount. Trollope did not do word count, but simply wrote from the moment he woke until he had to go to his day job at the post office, where he was kept busy inventing the pillar box. If that time came in the very middle of a sentence, he would flintily lay down his pen and resume the next day exactly where he broke off.
Sadly I am neither Greene nor Trollope, and I am rashly dashing away with the smoothing iron. These writing fevers come on me sometimes, and at least it swells the chapter count, even though half of it shall end up as dead darlings in the second draft.
At least I am not going to do my usual thing of staying up all night before a hard deadline. Too tired from Christmas festivities for that. It’s a little Van the Man on the stereo, and a mild two more hours of editing, and then, as the old school say, Up the Stairs to Bedfordshire. (You may see how crazed I have become; I have never used that expression in my life.)
Rolling with laughter at Bedfordshire. And after all, you did give us a blog.
ReplyDeleteNow that I am catching up, your Christmas and New Year's blogs were lovely. All the best to Red, Myfanwy, Stanley, and of course, you.
Bird
It could have been worse, you could have said "up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire ".
ReplyDeleteWell done on the word count I never managed more than 2000 in a day when I was studying.
I did post Happy New Year but my rubbish phone clearly lied to me AGAIN. So I shall simply repeat Happy New Year to you and Red and tribe and Stanley and thank you for the loveliness x
ReplyDeletea very happy new year to you and yours Tania, hpe your mum is on the mend and that 2013 is filled with gentleness for you x
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