October 17

• Project: The Dreams
• Total word count: 193,592
• Today’s word count: 1,276
• Thoughts: I’m getting back on track with my writing training, but I’m not quite there yet. I probably could have hit 1,500 words today if I hadn’t run out of ideas. I have the big plot points ready to go, but every once in a while I run out of small details to fill in the gaps. It was too late to sit up and mull it over so I decided to sleep on it instead and missed out on the last 224 words.
• Tomorrow’s goal: Write 1,500 words.

October 18

• Project: The Dreams
• Total word count: 194,211
• Today’s word count: 619
• Thoughts: I didn’t make it to 1,500 words like I wanted, but I did make a decent amount of progress. I just wish I would have buckled down and tried to write earlier in the day. Some days I can make that happen and other days I’m so distracted by everything going on around me that I can only focus once the rest of the world quiets down.
• Tomorrow’s goal: I want to work on improving my focus during the day and aim for 1,500 words again. Let’s see if I can make it!

October 19

• Project: The Dreams
• Total word count: 195,128
• Today’s word count: 917
• Thoughts: I’m still struggling to get my word count up to my target of 1,500 on a regular basis. This has me a bit worried for NaNoWriMo. I want to believe that I’ll be able to write more words next month because it will be a new project and I won’t have all the baggage I carry around with The Dreams, but I worry that my discipline is not what it should be either.
• Tomorrow’s goal: Revisions. More writing. I need to start hitting 1,500 words per day.

October 20

• Project: The Dreams
• Total word count: 195,811
• Today’s word count: 683
• Thoughts: Today seemed like it would be more productive. I’m not sure what happened. I spent a lot of time writing but wrote fewer words. It happens sometimes, but I’m never happy about it.
• Tomorrow’s goal: Revisions. Writing. More of the same, but hopefully better.

October 21

• Project: The Dreams
• Total word count: 195,810
• Today’s word count: -1
• Thoughts: Today was a strange day. I didn’t sleep much and because of that I was too tired to do much more than work on revisions.
• Tomorrow’s goal:  Hopefully sleep, post this weeks chapter and write!

October 22

• Project: The Dreams
• Total word count: 195,914
• Today’s word count: 104
• Thoughts: Remember how I wanted to sleep? I barely slept at all. It pretty much ruined my entire day. I got the chapter posted and managed to bang out a couple words, but my body just was not in any sort of shape for taxing mental efforts or sitting upright in a chair.
• Tomorrow’s goal: Sleep. So much sleep. And then so much writing. I think I can do it as long as I get a decent night’s sleep for once.

October 23

• Project: The Dreams
• Total word count: 196,329
• Today’s word count: 415
• Thoughts: Better, but not great. I did get some sleep, but sleep debt is a very real thing. I’ve been working in a scene that probably isn’t the best for a tired mind. Being tired did mean it took me a while to realize that.
• Tomorrow’s goal: More writing. I’m going to sleep and then I’m going to write lots and lots of words.

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