I read an article yesterday about an author/screenwriter—I was killing time at work and don’t remember how I came across this article in particular, and I have never read this author's work—but in it the writer talked about writing his first (never published) novel in graduate school. His advisor made him write ten pages each week and he finished a first draft of the novel in one semester.
I can do that!, I thought, as if the pages-per-week method was a revelation.
(Actually I thought that I could do five pages per week, which seemed more reasonable, because that allows for less than one page per day, or five days at one page per day and two days off, etc., etc. I need my days off.)
I did the math, too: there are 22 weeks between Christmas and the end of May, 2010, so 22 weeks X 5 pages per week = 110 pages = 4 stories (more or less).
This is totally doable in 2010! Everything will be different in 2010!
No writing last night. Still on Story #1.
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