I'm at my desk by eight-thirty, looking through the words I wrote yesterday. A cup of coffee helps as I nudge those words into a slightly different configuration, hopefully a better one. I delete overindulgences, and simplify tangled sentences. It might look like I'm editing, but it's nothing that precise, not yet. I'm merely re-familiarising myself with the last things I did yesterday, so that I can flow onto today's words.
Then I can start.
My minimum goal is always 1000 words. Ideally I will achieve 1500 - 3000, on rare days of inspiration I can see that rise to 6000, 7000, or - on a really good day - 9000. But 1000 is a good target. It's enough. Not brilliant, but sufficient. It will push the project forward. It will give my characters a chance to grow, to move, to talk, to act.
And it will set me up for tomorrow.
When I'll be at my desk by 8.30 . . .
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