Pulling an All Nighter (why yes I am too old for that, thank you for asking)
April 7th, 2010 at 9:15I couldn’t sleep last night, which bugged the hell out of me. Serves me right for going to bed early in order to get up for Arsenal v. Barcelona, I think. I ended up getting up at 2am and writing, on the grounds that if I didn’t get any sleep, I would be too trashed to make the most of my one child-free afternoon for the week, so I might as well get some work done.
There are no children awake at 2am. I might have to remember this for the future.
I spent a couple of productive hours reading through my doc and figuring out the big middle section of my plot, and then tuned into the game which started out promisingly enough, and then collapsed in a big messy heap. Oh dear, I actually said that out loud, didn’t I? The heap was in fact constructed mostly of Messi. That man is horribly good at what he does – if he ever loses the mullet for a better haircut, he will be diabolical. Shame he felt the need for some show diving in the first half.
Where was I? Oh, that’s right, writing.
It occurred to me this morning that I really need to get this novel written fast, so as to get it set firm in my head how it ends before I start hearing responses to Book One that might divert me from my purpose. Also that it might be good to have a purpose.
Hmm I’m at the point of tiredness where the whole body starts to ache.
It further occurred to me that people are reading review copies right NOW, the book itself comes out some time in June, and really that’s not a lot of time to write 70,000 or so new words. And to find a purpose. Well actually I’m pretty sure I found the novel’s purpose around 4am, but that may have been a particularly strong yawn.
Why does it have to be school holidays… Mama wants her pillow…
Writing. Writing good. Must write more writing. I may have written the novel’s full capacity of sex scenes already. That’s a bit depressing. Also, pulling an all nighter just to produce 800 words is a touch depressing, even if they are awesome plot-heavy words and also the most I have written since last Thursday.
Zzzz
Tags: mama writer, saturnalia, writing
April 7th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Sigh.
April 7th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
I feel your pain. I used to be able to pull all nighters, but now I’m lucky if I get any writing done once the sun goes down. 800 awesome plot-heavy words is pretty good I reckon.