Time Finder Day 7 (Saturday) and the end of my time finder week

morning: slept in, watched TV

afternoon: ate lunch, read book and slept

evening: write, wrote, wrote

night: dinner, TV, wrote some more and blogged.

It is currently past 1 am so sorry for any typos...

but the last day of time finder week has revealed to me that the best time for me to write is in the evening and night.  

I work better by lamp...  Research is better done in the daytime, outside and in the sun...but the actual writing and piecing together of notes is done swifter after dark.

Also, the adrenaline rush I get from commuting home seems to put me into a better working mode.  Weird.

Word count for March 14th  is at 3,340.

Time Finder Day 6 (Friday) and leaving my edit monster behind for the first day of writing

9:00-10:00 Woke up, got ready for work, went to work.

11:20-3:20 Worked (1 hour lunch break: read "Territory")

4:00-6:00 Checked e-mails, net surfing, phone calls read books.

6:00-7:00 Cooked curry and read.

7:00-10:00 Did some writing and research.

10:00-11:00 Ate dinner, watched the news on TV.

11:00-12:00 Personal hygiene stuff and got some zzzzzzzs.

This day was Friday the 13th, and it it didn't disappoint.  Work turned out to be horrible.  I was totally tired out by my week and my brain decided to take an early day off.  I thought I would crash when I got home, but since the whole day brought me down, I just became reeeaaaallllly ..... slow.

However, I did start writing some background on my story (I will call this my map)...it all "came to me" as I was taking the train home.  My thoughts about my "failure" gave me the first line!  Whether I will use it in the final draft is something I will worry about several months from now.  

 Because....

right now, for the first draft, we are supposed to leave our mind's "editing monster" at the gate. 

By leaving your edit monster behind while you are on your novel journey means:

that you can concentrate on pumping out the words.  

You are not supposed to erase anything you write no matter how bad you might think it is. 

(Baty suggests changing the fonts to italic or changing the colors to white so that you don't have to see what you wanted to erase.  That way you can still have everything included in your word count.)

So, with my 1,747 word map in hand, my edit monster left at the gate, I enter the world of "the strangest book ever" (the file name for my novel until I find my real title).  

.....

Hey, what was that sound?

Time Finder Day 5 (Thursday)

7:00-8:00 Woke up, got ready for work, left for work.

9:00-4:30 Work, work, work.  Hardly got to sit down.  Got so thirsty talking the whole day I felt                            like punching someone. Ngh.

5:00-6:30 Checked e-mail, did some house work.  Chased pigeon off veranda AGAIN.

6:30-7:00 Phone calls.

7:00-7:30 More e-mails...blogging...surfing....

7:30- 9:30 Finally started reading  "Territory" by Emma Bull.

9:30-10:30 Cooked dinner and ate.  Way too late for dinner time again...

10:30-11:10 Personal hygiene stuff

11:10- Currently typing this while watching late night news and am about to fall asleep at the                       computer...good night...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Time Finder Day 4 (Wednesday)

5:00-6:00 Woke up...tried to wake up and get ready for work. Left for work.

7:00-11:00 Worked.  (Had a ball by the way.)

11:00-12:00 Checked e-mail, blogged...almost fell asleep at the keyboard.

12:00-2:00 Phone calls and lunch.

2:00-5:00 DVD time!  (Bones)

5:00-7:30 Research, fell asleep, wiped away the drool and sleepy eyes, checked e-mails.

7:30-8:00 Watched news, checked e-mail again...more phone calls.

8:00-9:00 Read more manuals...argh.

9:00-10:00 Made and ate dinner.

10:00-11:00 Watched TV

11:00-11:30 Personal hygiene stuff , late night news on TV and then catch some zzzzzzzs...

Time Finder Day 3 (Tuesday)

7:00-8:15 Woke up and got ready for work.

8:15-5:30 Went to work - worked - went grocery shopping - came home.

5:40-6:30 Checked e-mails, web surfing.

6:30-7:30 Read books, manuals and other stuff...

7:30-8:30 Cooked and ate dinner.

8:30-9:30 Personal hygiene stuff, TV then sleep...gotta wake up early tomorrow.

Time Finder Day 2 (Monday)

8:30-9:00 Morning tea and TV.

9:00-10:00 Checked e-mail etc...

10:00-11:30 Chased pigeons off veranda, read manuals for work (argh).

11:30-12:30 Talked way to long on the phone with mother.

12:30-2:00 Lunch, business phone calls, web surfing/blogging.

2:00-5:30 Read manuals and books.

5:30-6:30 Web surfed while preparing dinner....

6:30-9:30 Ate dinner, personal hygiene stuff then all of a sudden....fell asleep like a baby

Time Finder Day 1 (Sunday)

9:00-10:00  Woke up, made coffee, read a book.

10:00-11:00  Watched TV and got ready to go shopping.

11:00-3:00  Shopping and lunch in Osaka.

3:00-4:00  Fell asleep on sofa.

4:00-5:30  Net surfing, blogging.

5:30-8:00 Cooking etc. and ate dinner.

8:00-9:00 Watched TV.

9:00-10:00 checked e-mail, blogging.

10:00-10:45 Personal hygiene stuff.

10:45- Finishing this list and now will read till I fall asleep...good night!