OK - off to a good start today with 294 words before my kids woke up. We’ll see if I can do two more writing sessions like that one to get my 1,000 word total today.

BTW I did zero words yesterday. Adverage for the week so far is 88.7 Words/Day (that’s for the full seven days).

But now that the kids are fed and washed and dressed I need to shower and dress myself, or should I sit down and write another few words first?

I have resolved to finish Alice this month. It is now two years since I started writing it and it is time I finished it and moved on to something new. I have no shortage of ideas for stories. Of course I haven’t spent the last two years working solely on this one novel. I keep getting distracted with all those new/better story ideas and writing outlines and sometimes whole scenes and even whole chapters.  I keep thinking I should be writing short stories so that I have some “finished product” to show potential readers/fans. But these short stories keep turning ito full length novels. I would say that I have ADHD if it were not for the fact that I don’t believe ADHD is a real illness.

So my plan is to write 1,000 words a day for the next month and complete Alice. Biased on the size of completed chapters I have a little over 29,000 words to go.

I am taking my inspiration from both the National Novel Writing Month and from 30 Days to Success by Steve Pavlina. I know it is possible to write 1,000 words a day and I know that setting a limited of only doing it for one month means that it does not seem like such a daunting task, like a complete lifestyle change would be. But then as I am going through my Mid Life Crises maybe a complete lifestyle change would do me some good

I am also thinking of publicly exposing myself by posting my word count for each day here on my blog. Of course I will have no problem posting on those days that I achieve, and exceed, my 1,000 word target. But how would I feel about days like yesterday where I only wrote 323 words of Alice. I also wrote 298 words of my Cinderella story and bits and pieces of other works so the total word count for the day wasn’t too bad. But I don’t want to bore my blog readers with posts along the lines of “Oh dear, I only wrote 128 words today, Woe is me.”

But we shall see.

Country Road

I have just turned 42 and have been thinking about my life, and my death, for the past while now.

I guess I am going through my Mid Life Crises. I am a bit late as the latest statistics that I can find show a life expectancy of 75.1 years for Irish Males. That would mean a “mid life” of 35.5. So at statistically at 42 I am already more than half way through my life. Even so I still feel, and act, like I am only 19.

However it doesn’t matter in the long run if I live for another two, twenty, or two hundred years(though I’d prefer the latter) because in the thousands of years of recorded, and unrecorded, history of mankind it is such a small moment. And in the billions of years since the Earth formed my lifetime is less than the blink of an eye.

But mainly I am sad because life is like an unfolding story and I am always keen to find out what happens next. And once I am dead I will never get to see the ending.

OK I haven’t gotten made as much time as I thought I would to work on Alice. Also I found a big block of text I had previously written had to be rewritten (ouch), so I am still not finished Alice just yet. I have just over half the novel written

I also had set myself a target of 1,000 words a day, but I am not getting nay near that. I am on 250-350 words a day at the moment. However September marks the 2nd anniversary of starting Alice and I think that working on one novel for two years is quite long enough. So I will do my utmost to finish Alice before the end of September.

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