Word count: 17,063.

Close to 2,000 words completed tonight is a fair effort. I’ve been finding the writing pretty slow going of late – I’m still letting my inner censor critique everything as I’m writing, and I can definitely see it slowing me down. So I made a special effort tonight to not be as critical of myself and what I was writing as I normally would be, and I found that the first 1,000 or so words of it flowed out quite quickly … maybe in about an hour of writing rather than the 2 it’s been taking recently for that much.

So i discovered a few things today that might help with my faster, more flowing writing in the future… the first – and this is something that I’ve heard over and over, as has any writer – is to write what you know. So I was writing a bar scene tonight, mostly dialogue, a bit of description, but when you are familiar with a scene or setting that you are writing about, it becomes soooo much easier to write about it fast.

The other thing technique – which I’m hoping in the near future will help boost my word count significantly – is pointless anecdotes. I wrote one of those tonight that went on for a bit over 500 words. I have the feeling I’ll come back in editing at a later stage and delete it, but for now, in the goal of spewing as much on the page in a month as possible, this may be a crutch I fall back on regularly :P