The friday writing update will now formally take place Saturdays. Because I don’t think I’ve ever done it Friday and why fight nature.

The title of this week’s writing update should be: Excuses, Excuses.

I wrote but little. I had hoped to increase my daily word count from 1000 to 1500 which would have meant a weekly total of 7500. Actual total: 2700. Fell short. Excuses to follow.

On Tuesday I had to have a nap because I was up most of the previous night. Blame Dan’s snoring. Don’t worry, if it happens again he is getting a one way ticket to sleeping in the basement. That or he’ll wake up with a pillow over his face.

Wednesday, back to it. Or so I thought but HAHA, no. It turns out I was chosen as a parent supervisor for Jacob’s class fieldtrip and totally forgot.

Thrusday. I actually don’t remember what my – oh, wait, I do. Had to shop for Dan’s birthday presents. It’s his birfday today (Saturday). Blame Dan AGAIN. He’s out to get me!

Friday: 1500 words. Horrah!

Feeling a little like the writing sucks giant writing ass this week. I am dying to go back and rewrite every single word. Or to at least comfirm my suspicion that it’s all crap. But I won’t this time. Because I know it’s the wrong thing to do. I can confirm crappiness when all words are written. And just think of the satisfaction in rereading a whole LOT of crappiness!

I suck, I think.

Crisis of confidence. Comes from not having actually been writing all week. Also comes from fact that am realizing the novel sucks huge ass. Because I am not developing subcharacters well enough. And am using the word ‘then’ far too much which is a sign of moronocy. Which is so a word. Look it up, knowitall.

Next week I will do better. Er. Betterer. No field trips that I know of. Although the kdis are off school Monday for Canadian Thanksgiving. Let me get that bit done early:

Monday next: ZERO WORDS.

I am going to try to write some this weekend to make up for the week’s shortcomings. We’ll see. No pressure on weekends. Apparently, no pressure weekday either. HAZZAH!