Motivation

Apparently if you give yourself lofty word count goals and a really enticing reward, you just might be able to power through several thousand words at a sitting without even batting an eyelash.

Yesterday, I spent two hours at B&N doing research consisting of reading through all the kids dragon picture books/dinosaur field guides I could find and then finally skimming through a volume of the Best Fantasy Illustrators of 2007--which terrified me, I must admit. I got a million ideas, and worked out a few that had been troubling me.

Last night I decided to lay down the challenge: if I could hit 7K words, Derek would have to come over. And I hit a thousand words in less than an hour. Pretty amazing. :) I don't think he'll be up for being my sole source of motivation so I suppose I'll think of other things. Like the Vosges Chocolat's Mo's Bacon Bar. Or a quick trip down the street to Target.

Regardless, I now have proof that I can do this. So whether or not I hit 50K within the November timeframe (hate to be defeatist but it's not looking so good, folks), I will give myself till December 10 which is one month from the day I started the new (old) subject.

But not quite yet. I'm still assuming I can do it before next Friday...

Word count: 7003