For anyone that’s paying attention, I’ve just had a significant (for me anyway) jump in the word count for Diamond Crier (over in the sidebar, scroll a little . . . right there). I can write the books. Oh yes I can. But my payment for this talent is the manual labor involved. Ok, so I don’t break a sweat but it was heinously muggy yesterday if that counts for anything.

Writing pen to paper, while very freeing, is a bit hampering when it comes to actually typing the work into the computer, especially when I do this only once a month. Why only once a month? Because that’s pretty much when I feel like doing it. I wouldn’t want to do it every week and I like not knowing how much I wrote until the month’s end. I like the surprise, even though the number is far less than what it felt like to type, nor looked like page-wise in the notebook.

Why do I write pen to paper when writing directly to the laptop would save so much time and finger numbing? There’s a post here under the Coney Island Psyhic category where I say why. I just can’t type straight into a laptop. My brain freezes and the story suffers because of it. I’ll do what I need to do in order for the story to not read like a piece of crap and if that means writing it out, so be it. Now I just have to work on my penmanship because I came across some words yesterday that I needed a decoder ring to decipher.

And when I say I spent all day typing, I literally spent all day typing this section in. I broke for some snacks in the middle of the day and then dinner, starting the whole deal sometime around 2. I finished around 11 last night. Oye. On top of that I still have a fanfiction chapter to type in. In my insanity I contemplated doing it last night. Then the dementia waned and I went nope. So I’ll do that this morning. Much less in this typing but my fingers aren’t big fans of the keyboard at the moment.

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