Today has been interesting, to say the least. It started with me still having a hard time waking up at a decent time in the morning. I shouldn't sleep in so much, I feel like I really don't get a lot done on the days when I do. It doesn't help that Phil has been on new meds that are making him tired all the time, so he's sleeping a lot more and I don't like to just sit by myself all day so I have been sleeping more. And staying up way too late at night. I gotta work on that.
But I still have managed to write today. Write quite a bit too, and I'm only taking a break to write this blog and not lose my streak in my word tracker. I wish it didn't reset at midnight because I usually write in the evening and into the early morning and that isn't being tracked the same way I would track it. I guess it doesn't really matter because it's all being tracked at least. I like the tracker site that I'm using because it has a line graph that makes me feel good about my progress.
I have realized that I can easily write around 1,200 words a day. If I manage to do that every day, which seems to be the hard part, then I can get around 8,400 words a week in my book. I can already tell that it's working because I'm already about 2,500 away from 70,000 words in N For Not Human and I feel like I just hit 60,000. It's crazy to think I have so much written in this one book and I still have a far way to go. It might be crazy to try to write such a long ass book but this story deserves this kind of length. It deserves to be properly fleshed out even if that means that it is 120,000 words long or 180,000 words long.
I was able to spend really smartly at the grocery store today and that made me super proud. I had $75,79 to spend and I needed to buy food for six dinners and some drinks and toiletries with that. I got everything I needed to get and it ended up being $75.01. It feels so good to be able to make that all work out down to the penny like that. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to too, it took a bit of mathing and finagling to get it just so.
Then Phil and I made dinner together, which I love cooking with him, that is very much like a love language thing we do. We made seaseme chicken, broccoli, and fried rice, all homemade, from scratch. It was really good! Of course it won't be as good as take out but it turned out pretty damn good if I do say so myself.
We already have tomorrow's dinner planned out and I have a lunch planned for me and Henry at least. We will do sloppy joes and tater tots for dinner and for lunch I'm going to make a pepperoni and mushroom pizza. Yummy. yummy, dinner and lunch. And that dinner is a lot easier than today's dinner was. Breaking down, battering and frying chicken takes forever! FOREVER. Then frying the rice took a minute but Phil did that, I just seasoned it. Gods I love making pizza, it has become a thing for me because I don't like most other people's pizzas and crave my own but don't always have the energy to make it all the time. It's annoying having chronic illnesses. But there really isn't all that much I can do about it. I'm trying to get it under control but that is much easier said than done.
We are getting closer and closer to the Rough Draft Challenge in November and I am still so excited! Not gonna lie, the passion has fizzled a little bit but once I am able to start working on my sweet first draft of Cinder and Ash I know it is going to all come flooding back.
Oh! I also had someone on the writer's discord group I joined, reach out to me as a fellow horror writer! AH! I dm'd her and I really hope that she maybe actually wants to be friends lol I feel so lame for saying that but I've had a hard time keeping friends since not being in a place where I'm forced to interact with other people. It would be nice to have an internet friend that I could talk to about our books and they will understand the drive and passion of writing and having a book stuck in your head and all that. Maybe we can lean on each other during the challenge or afterwards. Maybe we'll like each others books and we will be like beta readers for each other and stuff like that. I dunno I'm just excited about it lol.
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