Day 5 went well. I was torn between writing right away and sitting with tea and cross-stitching. So, I spent 30 minutes drinking lovely almond biscotti tea and cross-stitching.
I only allowed myself those 30 minutes, though, and then I wrote. I wrote for about an hour and a half, which is shorter than I normally might write on Tuesday, but I wrote more in that time than I have in weeks. The constant writing this week has kept me in the story so that I didn't have to go back, review what I had written, and decide where I wanted to go. I'd been doing that work all along this week.
After my writing time, I had a massage, followed by a little down time before Chris and I went to the annual Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce holiday dinner.
As I'm looking back on the week, I'm very pleased. My work week was productive as I essentially added an entire extra day to do work. My writing was productive (and enjoyable). I felt more a part of my novel, and, again, I didn't have to spend a lot of time getting back into it. Ending on Friday with the afternoon free and that wonderful Friday-it's-the-weekend feeling wraps things up nicely.
I'll continue this schedule, although I am still concerned about getting stuck in a rut and feeling as if I have to do any piece of this. I'll just adjust as necessary, but I LIKE this schedule. I don't wanna change!
(In case you haven't kept up, here's Day 1, Day 2, and Day 4.)
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