The hardest thing for me when it comes to writing, is finding the time.  I’ve been working a lot lately, and when I finally do get home, its in time to head to bed.  The last thing on my mind is staying up later then I can handle in order to get a word count or a page count done.

I’ve read a few articles and watched a few interviews with some fairly major authors recently, and its made me start to realize that if I want to get anything done, all that the focus should be on is starting.  Even 300 words, is 300 words more then I had the night before, and over the course of the week that could end up being a few thousand.  300 words a night for a whole year is over 100k, which is a book.

Normally I’ll wait until I have a block of uninterrupted time and pound out a few thousand words, but then not be able to look at anything for a week or so.  It might actually make my process harder because I spend more and more time away from my characters and plot that I need time to refresh myself when I go back finally.

So I’ve been trying something new starting from today.  I’ve gotten 800 words in today so far, but as its a non work day, I’m hoping for more.  I have a weekend to get some respectable work done, and then starting Monday I’m going to test my resolve and get 300 words down.  Might as well start small.  When I have 2 major projects that I’ve been working on, and all I want to do is finish them, every little bit counts.