NaNoWriMo 2023 — Day 16

  • Writing Time: 01:05
  • Session Word Count: 1,791
  • Total Word Count: 28772 (26667 par)

Ah yes, vacation, where I didn’t actually write more, but at least felt nice and relaxed while hitting my normal quota.

I’m so close to wrapping things up in the port city and sending my characters on a very unpleasant journey by boat. However, I’ve managed to write my way into even more things that have to be wrapped up before that happens. So once again, I believe I have one more session before they can get on their way.

My documented writing time for this session is unreasonably fast compared to my average so far, but I suspect that’s just inaccuracy caused by several false starts where I wrote a bit, got distracted by something else, and came back later to start again.

Setting aside today’s accuracy, one interesting side effect of documenting the time I’m spending on writing is that I find the actual time doesn’t match up with how long it feels like it’s taking. Some days the writing feels hard or easy, and some days I get done thirty minutes faster or slower than usual. But often, those two things don’t match. Just because it feels slow and painful doesn’t mean it’s actually taking longer. I’m not sure what to do with that insight, but it’s interesting.

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Author: Samuel Johnston

Professional software developer, unprofessional writer, and generally interested in almost everything.

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