words spread thinly

Haven't posted here lately. Badbad! I find it hard to spread myself across all these places for my words - the stories, my LiveJournal, this blog, the IWDTFM blog, not to mention our work blog, plus work, personal and IWDTFM tweeting. Phew. A lot of places to write in, and not enough time.

The IWDTFM blog is going well. Five months of archives now, and 77 posts. We've now beginning to build our network, which is a key way to increase readership - basically, make friends with other bloggers. Because we have such an undefined purpose, no set topic, it makes it difficult to connect with other similar blogs!

I'm still meandering along with Molly. I was going to put 'trudging' then, but it's not a chore, it's more like fleeting and bitsy. Meandering. I hit 28,000 words on the story yesterday, which was a nice marker. Plus I discovered a meaty plot point for the upcoming (and dreaded) middleofthebook. It was kind of an obvious place to take the story but I only realised it yesterday.

I also abandoned Writer's Cafe in favour of my dear old Excel, and plotted the story out on a spreadsheet:



I was using a trial version of Writer's Cafe, so I could only have 30 scene cards, and I am too skint to buy the full version. Excel does the job, luverly. Each row is a character (colour coded), and each column is a day.

I really want to get to 30k words. Maybe I'll try some today. I'm at home today, Monday, because I'm sick. Still doing some work as have logged into work webmail, but honestly, my brain is all over the place. Makes me think I probably can't write either. Flitting thoughts and difficulty concentrating.

I'm a big old gushbucket, sneezing + coughing everywhere. Extremely contagious! Watch out...