Sweating with Sven…1

Today, I’ll be reporting to Sven. I’ve got a visual of me…standing on a blue mat with feet together, shoulders slumped back, writing gut sucked in. Sven is in front of me looking all hot…sweaty…fit. There are 323 of us sweaters now. I’m Sweater No. 312. I blogged about it when I signed-up on the 19th of October. My goal — 1,000 words/day. It was a rocky start. At my first check-in on the 21st, I’d sweat only 283 words. Sven didn’t like that number. I whispered that I had edited and revised 5600 words, too. I didn’t check-in on the 24th. I was FTA (failure to appear). I was flexing writing muscle. Do Not Disturb.

In my visual, this is how it’s going down: My eyes are trained on Sven. He’s got his hands on his hips, his legs in a wide stance, his weight balanced to the left. My chin goes up. I deliver the news — 7995 words since my last visit to the mat, for a total of 8278 words of sweat equity. That’s an avg of 920 words/day. I don’t see a smile, but I do catch a flicker of interest. At the end of the day, maybe…just maybe…I’ll be a contender.

Okay. I’m ready for my audience with Sven.

Elen

10 thoughts on “Sweating with Sven…1”

  3. lol I like your post! another sweater here, don’t know my number… congrat on 920 words a day! I’m crossing my fingers that you get 1000 words a day next week!
    Good Luck!

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  4. Hey Portia, Melissa, Annie,

    Thanks for blogging by. Yeah, Portia, I imagine Sven is smiling on the inside while he’s busting my writing butt on the outside. 😉 Pump those words this week, sweaters. Go Sven!

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  5. You kill me, Elen. I simply dash in, point at the pages on my desk, whine about my work schedule and dash back out before he can grab me by the scruff of the neck and throw me down on the mat. :sigh:

    Keep going woman.

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  6. Keziah,

    ROTFL – Guess I’m the drama queen and you’re…not. Definitely gonna try Keziah’s SVEN DASH on Wednesday. Yep.

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  7. Wait, you don’t want Sven to throw you down on the mat? I thought we were romance writers. 🙂 Okay, at least I am. Good job on the amount of work you’ve accomplished. It’s great to get words down on paper no matter what the amount.

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  9. Go, Elen!

    You are definitely making progress. I’ll bet you enjoy that wrestling with Sven? Sounds like you’re getting into great shape with the word count. But we love those stern taskmasters. They push us to the limit. Tell Sven if he doesn’t back off you’ll get him in a leg lock and he won’t escape 😉

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  10. You slay me, Shawna. I’ll be doing a lot more ball squeezes with PT Danna if I’m going to get Sven in a leg lock! Glad you dropped by.

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