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Weekends prove to be a challenge for me to write. With the library closed, there isn’t a place I yet feel comfortable to write. Today I wrote for about an hour before I lost motivation. I finished writing a few scenes for sequence seven. The second half of my script is already giving me a challenge. After I finish my second draft, I know I will have to make a few changes in the middle of the script. Right now there’s not much going on story wise. It feels pretty stagnant. I think tomorrow I’ll finish up with sequence eight and call it a day.  If things go according to plan I should be finished with the second draft by this Tuesday.

So today I actually woke up before 9am and started writing around 11am which had been my original plan since the very beginning. I’m making really good progress right now. As always, I was distracted a few times by the internet but nonetheless I finished everything I needed to do. At the end of the day, I did an overall page count of how many script pages that I’ve written since I started the rewrite and it came to a total of about eighteen pages in the last three days. That comes to an average of six pages a day. These next three days is going to be quite a challenge. From the very beginning the 1st half of my script was well organized and decently written. However, with the 2nd half I was kind of all over the place with the story. With that said, my plan for tomorrow is to continue where I left off and finish writing the new scenes for sequences seven and eight.

I had a pretty productive day again. My resistance level is slowly becoming smaller. However I still have bouts of resistance as I have to surf the internet every once in a while. It’s almost like an itch I have to scratch. Sometimes I wonder if I’ve become addicted to the internet. Anyways, I finished writing my scenes for sequence three and four. As of right now I am still on schedule. Tomorrow I’ll write out my new scenes for sequences five and six.  I’m slowly starting to make some progress people. I can feel it. Just a few more laps and I’m done.

Another late start today. I had to take care of some errands this morning. But nonetheless I accomplished what I set out which was to write in the new scenes for sequences one and two. I’ve noticed that the writing is starting to get easier. This whole routine thing is actual working for me. Tomorrow I’ll continue where I left of yesterday and write in the new scenes for sequences three and four. Hopefully I’ll have a another completed draft one week from now.

I’m not really doing to well with sticking to an exact routine. This morning I got up to a late start. Instead of starting at 11am I ended waiting till 130pm. Good news, I did get three hours of writing done. After deleting quite a few scenes, my total page count when down to eighty pages from the ninety-five pages I originally had in my last draft. I also started to write in some of the new scenes. Tomorrow I aim to finish writing up the new scenes for sequences one and two. I also plan to finish writing in all the new scenes for the entire script one week from now.  As you can tell I am a very systematic person. So we’ll see how the rest of the week goes.

The day started off pretty well. I got up about half an hour later than what I wanted to which isn’t to bad. I got to the library around 1130am and wrote for about three hours. I finished touching up my outline and then went through the script and started to deleted scenes that were no longer needed. Tomorrow I’ll go through the rest of the script and continue to delete scenes I no longer need. Then I’ll break up my script into twelve chunks based on the number of sequences I have and start writing in the new scenes. To overcome any resistance, I wrote in thirty minute blocks and took ten minute breaks in between which helped me to maintain my focus.

So I got about two hours writing done, two hours short of my ideal goal. This time I was a little more focused. I decided to go to Star Bucks and write which was nice except for the two girls sitting next to me complaining about how they want to travel more. I was able to finish up sequence six of my general outline. I still have six more sequences to go to finish the outline. From there, I need to go back through the script and actually write and delete the necessary scenes. The most important thing for me to do right now is to establish some sort of routine so I can accomplish my goal. I’ll start off small for right now. For this week I will plan to wake up at 9am and go to the library by 11am to write for three hours.

Resistance has hit me again. Whenever I set out to do something, I always find myself fighting resistance. I didn’t get any writing done on days three and four because of my interview for that position in Japan. I was pretty much gone the whole day so that left little time for writing. As far as day six goes, I have no excuse. I just didn’t write. Well I did write a little bit, more like half an hour before I decided to pack it up. I do not know why I have a such strong resistance to write sometimes. To make matters worse I bought a book online that focused on resistance to even further my procrastination to write.