Two Nights in a Row!

[queenoftheskies]

Okay, this is just plain strange. Two nights in a row, I've ended up with an even word count--the SAME word count--without even trying. Sure, I could write more, but since it's a nice, even number, I think I'll call it quits for the night and try to get some sleep. Heaven knows I can use the sleep.

At some point, I need to try to figure out exactly what it is that bad work days does to my writing...or to me. I've been able to write quite a bit, but I haven't necessarily been happy with it. And, yet, at the same time, I can't pick anything definite out that makes it crap.

Sure, it's rough draft. It needs fixing. Most rough draft work needs fixing. It needs more mood and more detail. I can do that later. So, why don't I feel good about it? Why don't I feel like I accomplished anything today?

My only answer is that I had a really awful day at work. It started out good, but deteriorated by afternoon and then I ended up having to work an hour overtime on top of that. I came home tired and burned out and really frustrated.

So, the only thing I can think of is that I'm taking my rotten day out on my writing, since I can't really take it out on the people who frustrated me. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe I just wrote crap. Guess I'll find out on the rewrite, huh?


Beginning of the End 2,000 words for the day

202,277 total words to date

Comments

[kimberlychapman.livejournal.com]

The round word count is actually no statistically more or less likely than a non-round count. However, hitting it twice is probably more statistically interesting...then again, perhaps not if your word count is often around that mark. Basically, you'd have to find the spread of the range of word counts and figure out how likely that specific number is to come up in the expected range (it'd be the same likelihood as any other number in the range), and then you could calculate the probability of getting the same number twice in a given number of days.

Is it showing that I am married to a mathematician? :D