mojo nixin’

hmmm.

so, i took the weekend off from my novel writing. the word count didn’t budge these past two days.

i’d stopped for two reasons:

1. i realized on thursday night that there was a better way to structure the story, and one that would require some cutting and pasting of the existing 10.368 words... to which additional words would be added.

2. i didn’t feel like writing.

thing is, i also inadvertently killed my momentum in the process. 5000+ words a day on wednesday and thursday were followed with zero on friday, saturday and today. and, in that time, not only did my enthusiasm start to wane, but the little voices of doubt and criticism tiptoed in – saying this like “maybe you should scrap this” and “your story’s lame” and “what’s the point?”

i’m hoping i can silence them by tomorrow when i have to get back to work.