Author name: Tracy

It was a productive, but monotonous week.  Progress was made: MONDAY 0 TUESDAY 12,602 WEDNESDAY 6,054 THURSDAY 6,679 FRIDAY 6,614 SATURDAY 10,003 SUNDAY 0 Usual word count goal for the week:  34,800 Word count goal for this week:  As much as possible Actual word count for this week:  41,952   Just to prove that life likes to […]

    My week was completely hijacked. By something that feels a lot like the grinning clown in the picture. In other words, a boogeyman that mainly lives in my head. My grand plan for the last week did not happen. Here’s what did — and I’m embarrassed to put this out in public: MONDAY

The “living well” part of the productive equation means that sometimes, you have to put aside writing in order to pay attention to important other stuff. That was my week, last week. My husband and I share the same birthday, which also happens to be the date we met and the date we got married

  There is no such thing as a “typical” week.  There’s the ideal average, but that’s something in your imagination, good only for measuring your progress against. So are word counts, which are the ultimate measure, proof against any argument. I had an atypical week, which by its very uniqueness is really a typical week.