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Nine pages today on Merry. Which is really cool. I’ve gotten five or more pages done for the last three days. So why not raise the bar, and make eight my minimum like it was for years? Because this book has made me tired faster with fewer pages. Four pages sometimes takes me all day, and exhausts me. So, if I make more than my page count, yea! But I don’t count on it.
This isn’t lifting weights, where if you can do twenty reps with ten pounds, you up the weight next time to fifteen. If you can do twenty reps with fifteen, you up the weight again, until you get to a weight where doing ten is work.
If you try for that attitude with writing, you don’t build more muscle, you tire yourself and your muse out. For me to up my page count on this book, I would need a month of exceeding my page count. Thirty days, then I’ll believe that four is too low. But beware of those days when the muse and you are dancing fast and furious. It can give you the illusion that it’s all going to flow, and you can do it all.
I’ve learned on days that are really good, to never talk to New York about deadlines, because buoyed by a muse-driven day, you can promise things that your imagination has trouble delivering. So, easy does it. Writing a book isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon. Pace yourself accordingly.