Thoth: The God of Writing

This is an image of Thoth, the Egyptian god of writing. He is credited with the invention of writing and the alphabet and was scribe to the Egyptian gods.

I'm invoking him today in order to report on my writing so far.

As of yesterday, for October I've written 38,734 words and I've written on average this month 1, 937 words a day. That's compared to my overall total for September which was 38,192 and an average of 1,539 words per day.

Yes, I'm obsessed with Excel! *grin*

Now, once I start revising many of those words will be thrown out onto the compost heap. But I've come to the realization that in order to get the words that will, with hope, stir the reader, I've got to write a lot of garbage. There's no getting around it. I've got to write and I've to write every day.

Others may not have to write every day, but I've learned it's pretty much a necessity for me now.

Someone said (can't remember who) that you've got to write a million words before you can even think you've really hit your stride as a writer. Don't know if that's true or not. But if it is I've got to write steadily for at least three years to have written a million words.

So, here I go. :)

I'm 50% done with the draft of my 30,000 word novella. Really need to pick up the pace on that in order to reach my goal of finishing the draft before NaNo starts. My prepping for my NaNo novel is proceeding apace. Again, need to get a move on that too since NaNo starts next week and don't want to be caught short.

Speaking of NaNoWriMo go to link below to see the lists of authors who will be inspiring us NaNoWrimers to write in November!

List of Authors - Pep Talks for NaNoWriMo

I'm reporting in at 70 Days of Sweat and am finding the daily posts by the sponsors to be very helpful and inspiring and reading the comments of those who are also trying to sweat along with Sven is also motivating.

The 1000 Words a Day list is still going strong and has also proved a great source of motivation for me. Thanks, guys!

Saw a new episode of Torchwood last night. (Well, new for me.) Love that show! And Captain Jack? Well, what can I say? He's hot! Was an interesting one about one of the characters having the ability to hear other people's thoughts and the implications of that.

Ciao for now.

Torchwood

Torchwood has become my new favorite show. It's a spin off of the current incarnation of Doctor Who and features as its lead a character who was introduced on Doctor Who, Captain Jack Harkness, who is a bisexual (or perhaps pansexual or omnisexual is a better term as Jack just doesn't confine himself to humans when it comes to sex) time traveller and con man from the 51st century. He's also immortal.

Jack Harkness is not his real name. He doesn't know his real name as it was wiped from his memory.

I could go on about the show but suffice to say if you like X-Files, Buffy, Doctor Who, of course, and things that go bump in the night, check it out. It's currently showing on BBC America and the DVD of the first season will be out in January.

Well, it's hump day and I'm still writing and sweating with Sven, still getting ready for NaNo and still working that nine-to-five grind.

And still having to run around like an insane person to keep up with everything.

So, as usual, gotta run!

Ciao!