In the path to professional authorship, I want to build up my threshold for switching gears. I need to develop routines between scenes, 5-10 mins, where I move my mind from exhaustion and euphoria to a pause in things, put the old scene away. Recenter, peace, reclaim excitement and move focus completely to next scene.
The only way that's possible is to develop ways to recharge my brain, free up the cobwebs from the intense concentration, refresh and move on. I will start developing methods during the weekend/today. Already I've started working on setting up the next scene before finishing my work each night. Just a start into it, any small piece, so that during my time away from writing, my sub-conscious is puzzling out the next scene. And when I open the project the next day, it's already focused on the next scene. (I'm not still looking at the old stuff, except if I want to re-read to get a flavor of the story again. But my focus of struggle should always be the current scene, not yesterday's work.)
And always, my main thing is to keep WriteTrack realistic and updated. My actual daily goal will stay low. 250-350 as an amateur = success. If the word count gets too high, because I've been away, I push the date out until the word count gets back to a reasonable amount.
