Shortly after sunrise, Constable Bill McDearmotte is already on the beat. I see him from a distance, about four blocks from here. He should be resting, taking his deserved time off. But he’s so dedicated that he doesn’t seem to know when to quit. I can hear his standard-issue police shoes beating the pavement, even […]
Here’s an entry from my writing journal from Mar 3, 2003, slightly edited for publication:
I’m not doing too badly, compared to my output rate yesterday. I’m close to 2000 words in just over three hours. That’s about 537 words per hour. This is slightly less that the average of 553 words/hr that I had hoped […]
During the months of Jan - Mar 2002, I set a goal of writing at least 5000 words daily of something. What I did was chart my daily word count, then averaged it out on a sliding window of 7 days. What I found was that I couldn’t always reach 5000 words, and not all […]
