I believe the term is 'putting in dirt'

If I had to pick at least one short coming I have as a writer (other than inexperience, no contacts in the business and not having been published yet) is consistency. I've had my current novel idea for a few years now, taking time to work out the issues I had with the plot and a lot of the background things. Now that the final outline is finished, one would thing that the next part -- applying rear to seat and churning out the paragraphs would be easy? Right? I mean, Stephen King produces at least seven books a year -- and the dude is retired. Surely a piker like me should be able to produce one novel in at least the same amount of time.

Not so much.

In the course of a week, I've put in 3,827 words. Which breaks down to about 546 words (if you want to get accurate, it's 546.71428571428...) a day. Moat of those words came Friday and tonight. Not the best way to get started in this, I know. To my defense, I have a full time job that I am desperately trying to escape and when I get home, the last thing I want to do is sit in front of a computer again for another hour and type. When I do get home, it's off go the shoes and I hop into comfortable jeans. I read for a few minutes (Right now I'm reading Swords Against Deviltry by Fritz Lieber, which I highly recommend! and have dinner. After dinner, I do the dishes while my wife works on her accounting classes (She too has a job she's trying to get out of). After that, I have about an hour before I head off to the gym to exercise. In one hour, I have to try to cram as many words as possible -- which comes to many 300 or 400. I know -- that's another 300 or 400 words closer to the end of the novel, but by the time I get to that point, I'm tired. All I want to do is go to sleep.

However, I know that if I do go to sleep, that's another day lost. Another day back to the office.

So -- here, in front of my screen. I am going to do it. Every day, I am going to sit in front of this computer and write. I am not going to get hung up on word counts. I am just going to write. I'm going to put in more dirt than a mole on methamphetamine.
So -- enough of this. Time to put in the dirt.

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