Yesterday was very productive, and I thought that this would carry over into today. It doesn’t feel as much today.
But looking back on what I accomplished, I spent time preparing for the last of my interviews tomorrow, and more importantly added about 700-800 words to two different narratives. Thinking back to other writing days, this was a reasonable amount of work completed. So why did I feel this way? Because I spent a lot of time scrutinizing how I wrote. In other words, my work today was in quality, not quantity.
Today was a little more tiring and difficult to focus, considering all I was doing today was working in small chucks. Was it less interesting? No. Was it less exciting? Not at all. But sitting at home all day on my laptop, just writing and synthesizing information for specific type of paragraph I need to transition between two others? Not easy.
Instead of just sitting down and narrating a story from start to finish in form of a rough draft, I spent a lot of time working on transitions within the stories. These needed to be logical and functional, yet not cause my reader to lose interest.
At any rate, after I finished the first draft of my narrative on the Lower School music program, I went back and began editing and revising, I am pleased with its current status. After much more extensive work on it, the Upper School Winterim/Intensive narrative is closer to being finished. I also began working on the piece about Upper School athletics. I am exciting to get a break from writing tomorrow with my upcoming interviews!
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