Writing Log July 19th, 2016

1:38 - Word count, 0. The hotel server is down. Internet keeps going in and out, and there is a leak in the roof over the front desk. On the plus side I'm by myself tonight. I had to train the new guy last night, which was interesting since he is a reader. However, it meant I was only able to write 386 words. Better than nothing, but a far cry from what I want. Goal tonight is 3,750, and six scenes.

2:11 - Word count, 1,026. First scene done. Time for more coffee, check on the server, and then back to the story. I can't wait to hear back from readers. I hope they love it as much as I have writing it.
Checked the server again, but it's still down. Still can't check people in, or run night audit, so the hotel is at a stand still. The GM isn't returning my texts or phone calls. I've done what I can, so I'm setting it aside, and getting back to writing.

3:28 - Word count, 1,464. Second scene done. New podcast episode is out for Science Fiction & Fantasy Marketing. So… I'll be watching that for an hour before I get back to writing. This is one of their better episodes. It has John L. Monk, he has great advice for authors just getting started or authors who are struggling to build their platform.

5:45 - Word count, 1,464. Breakfast is made. Finished the podcast. The night audit still isn't done, so it's creating problems with checking guests out, and until it's fixed no new guests can be checked in. Spoke with my GM. I did everything I was suppose to, everything else is out of my hands. I've written down everything that happened in our daily binder, and I'll explain it all to whomever relieves me. Until then I'm going to watch the podcast again and take notes. This episode is one of the best they've ever done.

8:59 - Word count, 1,496. I'm home. Had to stay late to finish work. Plus side, internet is back. I've got a phone call with my editor in about an hour. I'm excited and terrified. I'm not sure how this is going to go, but I'm being optimistic.

Night Audit July 12th, 2016

3:14 - Word count, 3,129. I didn't write last night, but I did watch Science Fiction & Fantasy Marketing Podcast about marketing and writing. Zach Bohannon was asked how he manged to work full time and also produce multiple novels a year. He explained that he set himself word count goals and scheduled writing time slots. When Joseph asked him if he ever ran into writers block, Zach Bohannon said he didn't believe in writers block. He admitted there were a few days here and there where he didn't write because he was burnt out, so he'd read or watch some TV. He claimed since he loved writing what he wrote, he was never blocked. He suggested that if someone is blocked to where they couldn't write for several days, that person either didn't truly want to be a writer, or they were writing the wrong thing.

The idea of writing the wrong thing really stuck with me. I figured since my cover art just came in I would be so hyped up that the words would just flow out. But, what I found was I couldn't get more than a couple sentences in,  and then I'd stop. So this idea of writing the wrong thing came back to me. I read through what I'd written the past few weeks and looked at where my plot was, and needed to go. What I found was I'd created this odd side plot that was offering false promises. Since I wasn't wanted to deliver on it I kept finding it hard to write the scenes. Long story short I cut out a subplot, and reworked another subplot by moving some major scenes around and rewriting to make them work chronologically.

Now the novel feels tighter and I think the character arcs will be highlighted better. Only down side is I lost some words in the novel. (About 4,500 I think it's hard to be sure.) With the great word count that I'm at, I'm only about 1,500 words away from making up the holes. I think I just saved myself a lot of work come editing time though. Ever since my first novel, (Which will probably always stay in the trunk), where I would write a chapter - edit the chapter and write a new chapter; then edit two chapters and write a third, etc. etc. I've been a strong advocate of never edit as I write. However, I think this instance will prove to be the exception to the rule.
At this moment the novel is at 43,087 words. Since I only log the word progress in the spread sheet, I might have to put my first negative number.

4:58 - Word count, 4,734. Total WC is 44,692. I'm back! I was able to make up the words I lost and then some. This is by far the most I've ever written. Count the fact that I manged to fix a major issue in my novel too, and any way you slice it tonight was a fucking great night! I feel high as a kite right now. With this momentum I'm sure I'll be able to write more when I get home. But for now, it's time to go make breakfast for 60+ people.


Daily Word Count, #DailyWC - 5,294
Novel - DWC: 4,734 TWC: 44,692
Blog - DWC: 560, one blog post.

Back From Break

Sorry for the laps in posts. As of right now, I'm at the 60% mark for the novel, with just over 43,000 words. I'm back at work after a four day weekend. I took the time to read and relax. I feel fully revitalized. I've learned that I can't put off reading while I'm writing. I was avoiding it so another author's voice wouldn't affect my own, but upon review I think that was a silly worry. Reading helps keep my mind sharp. I need other stories to help me see new ways of developing plot, character growth, etc. etc. I also got a new hair-cut for the summer. With it being well over 100 here I had to take a few inches off to cut down on the heat on my head.

I'm happy to be back, and excited to tear into the novel. I'm going to set myself a daily goal of 3,500 words while at work, and on weekends a time of one hour. I decided on the 3,500 words based around my average words per hour. I suspect that with the usual four hour I have of down time, I'll be able to hit the 3,500 words. Assuming I don't get side tracked and waste time. I think the hour on my days off will keep the story fresh in my mind and keep my momentum up. I've noticed that after breaks I find it harder to start up again. The cover for the novel is almost done. I'll be uploading it later this week! If all goes according to plan.

1:24 - Word count, 553. Started a bit late, but that shouldn't be an issue. Sunday nights are usually dead after midnight. I should have a good three or four hours ahead of me before I have to start breakfast and guest start coming in. Fun side note, I've started making sun tea and drinking it instead of coffee for the past three or four days. I've noticed that I'm sleeping better. Though I miss the taste of Death Wish coffee.

Well, I fell way short of goal. I missed it by about 3,000 words. My hours have been cut at work, so now I have to dig deep into savings and find a new job. Worst part, my GM won't talk to me. I've never meet a person in management so anti-confrontational. It's frustrating.

On the plus side, I came home and biked for a solid thirty minutes. There are some massive hills out here. My legs are killing me. I had to peel my cloths off. The sweat! However, 100% worth it. Took nearly an hour to recover but I feel better. Shower helped.

9:07 - Time for a beer, TV, a little more reading and then bed. 

Night Audit June 16th, 2016

3:23 - Word count, 2,527. I didn't start writing until after night audit. So that's an hour, maybe a tad over. Regardless, that's a new record not only for words written in an hour, but also words written at once without stopping. Feels great. I guess my mind knew it needed to make up for the past two weeks. I'm still about 6,500 words behind my goal, but that's ok. Goals are just that. A place I want to be. I want to reach the point that I'm constantly writing 12,500 words a week. It will take time, focus, and dedication. Until then I'll just take solace in the fact that I just broke the 37,000 word count for the novel. Besides, I'm sure once I hit the point that I write 12,500 words a week, I'll want to raise my goal and aim for 15,000 or more. Goals are just a way to motivate productivity out of me. I'm going to try and not let it get in my way and bring me down.

4:14 - Word count, 3,253. I'm about to write a dream scene, but I don't know how to go about it. I know the main points I want in it, but since it's a dream I don't want it to read the same way as the rest of the novel. I'm debating between skipping it, or just waiting for my subconscious to help work it out. I think I'll take a break. Eat, maybe drink some more coffee. Come back to it right before breakfast at 5:15. It should be a very short scene. I can probably write it in about fifteen minutes, once I know how to go about it.

4:26 - I was outside smoking. I watched as the moon was above a power line and then moved bellow it and slipped behind a tree in the distance. It's the first time in my life, that I've been able to fully grasp just how fast the earth is rooting and the moon is rotation around us. It's an exhilarating experience. I'm even able to understand the special nature of our horizon and how despite the power line looking to be taller than the tree, it's actually the arc of the earth creating an optical illusion. It took two points of reference and the moon being in the lowest part of the horizon, but I finally think I can fathom the spherical nature of our earth against the backdrop of the orbiting moon. It seems like such a small thing as I write this, but feels momentous. Maybe it's odd that I'm so excited about watching the moon set, but I can extrapolate the sun's arch across our sky. I think I can even envision the earth moon relation within the larger orbit around the sun. I wonder if this is how astrophysicist feel when they're observing new orbital bodies within our solar system.

Daily Word Count, #DailyWC - 3,765
Novel - DWC: 3,253 TWC: 38,059
Blog - DWC: 512, one blog post.
Weekly Word Count - 8,255

Previous blog Night Audit June 14th, 2016

Night Audit June 14th, 2016

0:44 - Word count, 419. Not bad given that I've only been writing for thirty minutes. The hotel is insane. It took nearly an hour for the person working before me to wrap up and leave. I didn't write a single word yesterday. I'll need to make that up over the next few days. I need to find a place I can write at home. I keep the same schedule when I'm home. Waking up at 22:00 and going to bed around 15:00. However, I don't have a good place to write at night when I'm home. 

1:57 - Word count, 867. Night audit is messed up to the point that I can't run the reports. My GM won't return my calls. I'm now stuck and have no idea how to resolve this issue. I've officially crossed my limit. When I get home, I'll shower, put on some nice cloths, print out my resume, and go find a new hotel that needs a night auditor. With all the hotels in this city I'm confident I'll find one that will want me and be willing to pay well. 

2:51 - Word count, 867. I'm eating lunch while I read the Austin American-Statesman. I've been reading the paper daily for almost a month now. It's the first time I've read a physical paper consistently. I'm able to recognize the writing of some of the staffers, and can even envision some of the editorial decisions, based on how some of the sentences are structured. They seem to take the idea of remaining politically neutral serious. I think that's an admirable goal. Especially since some of the writers come across strong right, and others strong left. (If you don't read a daily paper, I would highly recommend subscribing to one.) I've always liked news, but reading a paper is different than online articles. I find it has a more conversational tone. As if I'm actively engaged with the writer of the article. 

Daily Word Count, #DailyWC - 2,724

Novel - DWC: 867 TWC: 33,392

Blog - DWC: 352, one blog post. 
Weekly Word Count - 3,943

Previous post, Night Audit June 12th, 2016

Night Audit June 12th, 2016

1:24 - Word count, 783. I've only been at it for about an hour. The night started off a little crazy, and there have been more calls than usual. However, since about 0:40 it's been quite. Unless night audit is a total mess again, I should be fine. I missed my weekly goal of 12,500 words last week, by 3,354. That would require me to write over 5,000 words tonight to make it up, so I doubt that will happen. However, over the course of the week, I only need 2,266 per day to hit this weeks goal and make up last week. I think that is achievable. I spoke with my GM on Friday about how the job has been. We agreed that I've had to take on more responsibility than anticipated, due to under performance of my coworkers. She has agreed to address that with them, but we also had our pay evaluation. That was scheduled for my 90 day review, but due to my performance exceeding all expectation she had, we basically had my 90 day review Friday. She'll be in, in the morning. So I should have an answer then about what my raise will be, and also a plan of action for addressing the slack of my coworkers. Night Audit is in thirty minutes so I'm going to eat some food before then, rather than get into another scene.

2:31 - Running night audit. There was nearly a 50% mistake rate. I need a cigarette!
2:44 - Night audit took about 50 minutes. Most of which was fixing the fuck ups of my coworkers. I'm at my wits end with this shit. My GM needs to come back with a significant raise and clear plan of action on how to address this. When I started there were zero errors for the first two weeks. It's only been since I've answered my GM's questions about the performance of my co-workers that errors have started. Thus, I'm left to conclude that this is a retaliatory action. Making it illegal under employment laws. Now, I would never sue. I would win, but first I would have to spend a significant amount of time and money to do so. I have no interest in that. I do however, intend to either get paid accordingly, or find new employment. Enough bitching about my job. Time to work. Good thing I'm at a point were there is a lot of anger. Channeling life into my work is always best.

4:45 - Word count, 2,250. I'm on track to hit my goal and make up for last week. It's getting a little hectic here, so it's harder to write now.

Daily Word Count, #DailyWC - 2,724
Novel - DWC: 2,252 TWC: 33,392
Blog - DWC: 472, One blog post.
Weekly Word Count - 2,724

Night Audit June 8th, 2016

0:22 - Shit was crazy when I got to work. I just got done dealing with everything. About to start work on the novel. Goal is 4,000 words. I need to make up for the past two days. I've got plenty of energy, and I've not even had my first cup of coffee! Tonight is will be productive. I can feel it!

1:46 - Word Count, 1,055. Starting a new scene, but I'm going to wait five minutes and start night audit. I don't want to get into a scene and then get pulled out by my alarm. I'm back on track. This job is 100 mph, and then dead stop. I like being able to get my work done in large chunks rather than doing a little bit of work constantly. Creates large chunks of time for writing. I've not been reading much the past few weeks because I don't want other novels to influence mine. However, once I get to the editing stage I'll go back to reading. I figure once I'm in the editing phase the story is done, it's just going to be tightening up the plot and cleaning up my prose. I doubt I'll be writing new scene. I will have to rewrite entire scene though, and maybe throw out a few. Kill your darlings! Time for lunch and night audit.

2:13 - Night audit is a total fucking mess. My GM is coming on at 7:00, so I'll wait until then to talk to her. (Fingers crossed that it's not on me. I doubt it is I've doing the exact same thing every night.) Last thing I want to do is call her at 2 in the morning. It can wait until she gets here. (Maybe one day of training wasn't enough?)

4:05 - Word count, 2,006. Just finished a highly emotional scene. I can't wait to hear the reactions to it. Lunch was amazing. Time has flown by. It's going to be seven in no time at this rate. Didn't even realize it, but I just broke the 30,000 word mark!

9:54 - Word Count, 2,778. Around 4:30 or 5:00, things kept coming up and I wasn't able to sit down and focus on writing.

Daily Word Count, #DailyWC - 3,174
Novel - DWC: 2,778 TWC: 30,891
Blog - DWC: 396, One blog post.
Weekly Word Count - 10,138

Post for yesterday I missed, Night Audit June 7th, 2016

Night Audit June 7th, 2016

0:06 - The owner of the hotel I work for stopped by. That was interesting. I feel ready to write, and no where near as tired as yesterday. I got a solid eight hours of sleep, and now I can hit ground running.

3:38 - Word Count, 1,304. The story is growing with subplots and side stories. It's going to need some major revision. I dicked around for about two hours tonight not writing. However, I'm finally back on track. I've decided it's allergies that are making me feel tired and sort of out of it. I'd take allergy medicine, but that stuff usually makes me feel even worse. It's not even four so I have plenty of time. I'm going to set the goal of 4,000 and see what happens. (I know you can't read this in the past, but wish me luck! I would so use time travel to watch great authors at work.) I no longer have to deal with breakfast in any way, so I'm good to write until 6:45, minus the occasional stop to help a guest.

I didn't write when I got home. I took allergy pills and went straight to bed. Woke up feeling loads better, nearly at 100%.

Daily Word Count, #DailyWC - 1,536
Novel - DWC: 1,307 TWC: 28,113
Blog - DWC: 229, One blog post.
Weekly Word Count - 6,964

If you missed yesterday's post, Night Audit June 6th, 2016, check it out.

Night Audit June 6th, 2016

0:54 - Getting started late. There were several guests checking in late. I had to drink a Monster to wake up tonight. I'm staying up a bit to late during the day, but it's hard to sleep when everyone else is up. Over all I slept well last night. Just would have liked to get more of it.

2:16 - Word Count, 712. Finished with night audit, and ate lunch a bit early. Only on my second cup of coffee. The Monster seemed to have worked. I'm wide awake, but not wired. Restructured the novel, to be more impactful and compelling. It's urban fantasy, but I want it to feel real. Regardless, it should be entertaining, and maybe even insightful. 

4:45 - I've spent the last two an a half hours watching TV. I attempted to focus on the writing, but it was giving me a headache. I feel like I'm back in school. Majorly sleep deprived and needing to focus on an assignment. I'm planing to go to sleep the moment I get home. Tonight has been a disappointment. I'll have to take solace in the 712 words I manged to write. Between those and the great night I had yesterday, I'm still slightly ahead of schedule for the week.

6:21 - Word Count, 968. Manged to pull out a few more words. I'll address when I get home.

10:15 - I'm going to bed early. I'll get good rest and focus on writing tonight.

Daily Word Count, #DailyWC - 1,238

Novel - DWC: 968 TWC: 26,809

Blog - DWC: 270, One blog post. 

Weekly Word Count - 4,193

Night Audit Sunday June 5th, 2016

Woke up a tad late tonight, but still made it to work on time. I'm so pleased with only having a ten minute commute to work. I've never been able to get where I need to be that fast.

1:03 - Word count, 205. I'm running slow tonight. Still trying to wake up fully. I'm only on my second cup of coffee. I'm getting off social media and focusing!

1:53 - Word count, 1,257. Time for night audit. There are several guest who didn't show up, so it will take longer tonight than normal.

2:11 - Done with night audit. Time for lunch and then back to grind stone. I think 4,000 words is an achievable goal again.

4:50 - Word count, 3,427. Writing is going well. One scene will need major work. I wasn't able to see the setting clearly in my mind. I might need to rewrite the whole scene or even cut it entirely. It could be that I couldn't see it, because my subconscious knows it doesn't belong in the story. I'm not going to worry about it now. I've trained myself to just write. Keep putting words on the screen and don't stop. Once the story is done I'll have plenty of time to edit, and make as close to perfect as I can. I started writing again around 3:00, so that was nearly two hours straight of writing.

5:53 - Word Count, 3,847. Four scenes is a new record for me. I've still got an hour left of work, but I've hit my wall as far as writing. I've just stared chapter six. I think about 3,500 words is going to be my max for novel writing a night. I can live with that. It's double what I had planned around when scheduling. Provided I can edit a chapter a day like I've planned I'll make my deadline with time to spare. My professors would be shocked.

Daily Word Count, #DailyWC - 4,193
Novel - DWC: 3,847 TWC: 25,841
Blog - DWC: 346, One blog post.
Weekly Word Count - 4,193

Night Audit June 4th, 2016

I didn't write yesterday, so I need to hit it hard tonight. I spent the day with my family. We took our daughter to the park and watched the ducks. Apparently it's mating season. There was this one female who was being held down three to four male ducks at a time, while one of the ducks had their way with her. In the hour we were at the park, I saw this happen about four times. She kept trying to run away, but never flew. I couldn't tell if her wing was injured and that's why she only ran. My life-partner and I decided she might have liked it. Needless to say, when it was happening, we would direct our daughter to another part of the park, away from the duck rape.

Our town has a farmers market every weekend, so we stopped by that as well. It was fairly small, but several people show up to check out the vendors wares. There were at least twenty people there looking around. It's also close enough to the river that we could see it while we were shopping. 

2:16 - Finished Night Audit and sold an extra room. Word Count 629. Maybe a bit slow given that I'm here by myself. I shouldn't have skipped a day of writing. I've set my goal at 2,500, but I'm aiming at 4,000 again. Thank you for reading this. Know that there are people out there rooting me on, really helps!

3:15 - Word Count, 1,348. Time to take a break for lunch. Well, tuns out I forgot to add the bread and mustard. I guess I have meat and cheese. I'll have to look at what our snacks we have in our sundries section. Memo to self, pack lunch when I get home for the next day. Luckily, we had power bars. 

4:59 - Word Count, 2,282. Tonight is just rocking along. I didn't wake up until 22:05. I think I'll keep that as my wake up time. It leave me just enough time to get ready for work, but not so much time that I'm sitting around waiting. Plus I can go to bed later in the day and spend most of the morning and early afternoon with my family. The person in charge of breakfast will be here every day that I'm here, so I'll never need to worry about breakfast, which will leave me more time to write. I should have 2 am to about 6:30 uninterrupted every night. Plus what I can get done between 23:30 and 2:00. I've had three cups of coffee already. I'm going to cut myself off since this is basically my noon. Going to bed while everyone is in the middle of their day has been hard. 

5:12 - I just received my first prank call. Who is up at five in the morning and thinks, 'I should prank call a hotel?' Children these days. I'm still sitting here laughing though. I was a child that prank called. Slow internet at work keeps me focused! I'm finding the silver lining you're putting down ISP.

6:36 - Word Count, 3,679. I have to get ready to leave. I'll try and write more when I get home, but no guarantee. I'm going to log it as is, and anything else I write will just give me a head start for tomorrow.

Daily Word Count, #DailyWC - 4,269

Novel - DWC: 3,679 TWC: 21,994

Blog - DWC: 590, One blog post. 

Weekly TWC Blog and Novel: 19,123

Night Audit Wednesday June 1st, 2016

The good news is the internet is working. The bad news is it's very slow. It's just after 0:30. I'll check back in on it after 2:00. I figure everyone in the hotel is online trying to stream Netflix. I'm still on my first cup of coffee and am just now getting started. The shift before me didn't finish all of their duties so I had to wrap that up first. However, I am by myself all night so I should be more productive. If not, I only have myself to blame. I'll shoot for 2,500 words and/or three scenes.

12:42 - It has begun. I'm at 129 words, but I'm out of coffee and could use a cigarette. Time for a break. Then fury typing to hit my goal.

1:15 - 709 words, and I'm out of coffee again. I'm starting to get that coffee buzz. I keep finding my leg bouncing without me noticing. Does anyone else ever get hit with sudden urge to pee when drinking coffee? For me it comes without notice. I think it must be what little kids feel like. When

you see them dancing trying not to pee themselves as they run to rest room. Time for me to run.

1:41 - 921 words, finished the first scene of the night. That puts me at just over 36% of the way to my goal (For anyone else who's a bit of number junky like me). I keep all sorts of spreed sheets. In fact, I find the whole process of making a spread sheet and filling it out calming. It's almost like a meditation. I'm always trying to use numbers to make sense of the world around me. At some point I'll share all my writing spreed sheets and breakdown how I made them etc... if that's something someone is interested in.

4:14 - 3,978 words. Wow. That's the only word I have to describe the past hour and a half. I've never zoned into my writing with such intensity before. My brain feels like an over fried egg. I wrote my normal nightly goal twice over and then some. This must be what it feels like when the muse shows up. I've written four scenes tonight. I still have plenty of time, but I'm not 100% sure if I'll write any more. Regardless, I need a smoke break. 

5:35 - 4,004 words. I wrote two sentences. I'm not able to focus on the novel any longer. However, I know what to write next so tomorrow should be great. It's raining again. With all this rain I feel like I'm back in Seattle. I do miss the smell of the pine trees and all the wild blackberries I could eat. I'm off work tomorrow so I'll be online more. I should be able to get several more blog posts up so keep an eye out for those. 

Daily Word Count, #DailyWC - 4,507

Novel - DWC: 4,004 TWC: 15,503

Blog - DWC: 503, One blog post.

If you missed yesterday's post check it out, Night Audit Tuesday May 31st, 2016
Also be sure and read the series on how I got to this point, Step One: Readdress Priorities

Night Audit Tuesday May 31st, 2016

Tonight is rough! Internet is out. Yeah!!! There is little I can do. The issue isn't with out ISP, but with the internal hardware. I'm confident that I found the issue, but I can't be 100% sure. I also don't get paid to be our tech support so I'm not going to risk breaking anything further.

The rain out here has been crazy the past week. With it being Memorial Day weekend, our guests had been in a bad mood since their weekend was ruined by weather. Now that we're in our regular week, most of our guests are here on business. So now with the rain it's caused tech problems, which means guests aren't able to work online.

I find the whole situation annoying on a personal level, because I'm addicted to the internet. Also I'm unable to get on blogger, and have to wait until I get home. Luckily my phone has data, so I can check twitter. I suppose I should be happy since the lack of internet keeps me focused on writing. As I sit here I'm already two blog posts in and 21% of the way to my daily goal for the novel.

We have this awesome NESCAFÉ machine. The coffee isn't the best I've ever had, but it's better than may other coffee machines I've used. It feels like I have an IV drip of caffeine. By this time of night I'm so wired on coffee that the words fly out of my hands, and I can't even type fast enough to keep up. Come 4:00 in the morning, I'll be typing at about 1,400 words an hour. Most of my writing happens between 3:00 and 5:15.

It's about 5:00 and I'm crashing hard core. All my coffee buzz has gone, and I'm fighting to keep my eyes open. Tonight was not the best when it comes to my writing. As it stands I've got 1,354 words done. It's not nothing, but it's also a far cry from my goal. I'll pound another cup of coffee and hit the grind stone.

Finished strong, but it was tough.

Daily Word Count, #DailyWC - 2,266
Novel - DWC: 1,652 TWC: 11,499
Blog - DWC: 614, Two blog posts.

Previous post, Monday May 30th, 2016.

Night Audit Monday May 30th, 2016

Almost done with the first week at my new job. Not to undersell myself, but a monkey could easily do what I do. My job requires me to babysit the hotel. As the Night Auditor, I'm responsible for closing out the day and running reports. I also have to check in any guests that show up late. I usually see one or two people a night. 

As for running the Night Audit reports. The first night took me almost an hour. Now I'm usually done in about five-teen minutes. Most of that is me taking a smoke break, and the system talking to the offsite server. On days that the breakfast attendant isn't here I also have to make breakfast. That takes about forty-five minutes, and happens at the end of my shift. 

I'm left with a minimum of five hours by myself with nothing to do. Thus, writing time! 

Training was scheduled for a full week. I was done before the end of the first day. I've had someone here with me the whole week, but they sit in the back on their computer and just answer any questions I have. I'll continue to need answers to random things that happen. You can never train for everything. Otherwise I'm good to go. 

Next week will be awesome. I'll be on my regular schedule of working Sunday night through Friday morning. Leaving my weekend wide open to spend with the family. As for my writing. I'll get loads done here at work, and I'll just need to find the discipline to write at home with my free time at night. The only down side to this job, is I have to sleep in the day. Usually from about 12:00 to 19:30 or 20:00.

Daily Word Count, #DailyWC - 3,291

Novel - DWC: 1,640 TWC: 9,847

Blog - DWC: 1651, Five blog posts.