Well, I haven't murdered anyone, but Jack was right with his page after page after page of repetition. All work and no play drives you mad.I did pretty well on the 500 words per day thing, even managing to break the 1,000 mark several times, but found that the need to write something was taking over the need to write good stuff. On the whole, the experiment paid off and I've got some great, unexpected results, but some days, you just can't make the time, or your brain feels fried. Besides, I'm concentrating on completing Shingle (currently at 24,000 words) and that requires time to sit and reflect, weigh up all my notes, imagine and project. So sitting down at 11pm thinking, "gotta write something NOW" doesn't really work. At least, not taken day by day.
So I've turned the gas down a touch. However, I am still keeping track, so I'll end up with an end of January total (currently 17,400 words) and can try to beat that in Feb, then in March and so on... do it that way.
Better to do that, and take the odd a day off, than go down the Shining route.
BTW: Love that movie. Still the second best horror film of all time.
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I love that film too... but go on, what's the best?
Congratulations on the word count!
hahaha - I wondered if that would draw anyone in. In my opinion, probably The Exorcist. Most people only remember the last few scenes in the bedroom (pea soup!) but for me, it's the mother's breakdown and crippling anxiety as the medical professionals fail and fail again to help.
And the "spiderwalk" scene - of course!
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