I see your crap and raise my bullshit. Gods it was a horrible day! I wonder what was up with that....But tomorrow will be better.

Terry Brooks was asked by someone if he had bad writing days, and he said all the writing is good. When you go back and read it, you can't say "this was a good day. This paragraph was a bad day."

It sounds like your brain needs some stimulation and rest so you can come back tomorrow fresh and ready. :)

Yup and you wrote today despite the pain and effort so you WIN!

Agreed: any day you got words on paper/screen was a good writing day.

You can do it!

Hey, it happens. I'm actually planning on making a post sometime in the next few weeks about "cycles," which I'm starting to really recognize that I have. My wife actually came up with the idea, because she's been realizing that she has them herself. Talking to other people, and thinking back to comments that others have made, I'm really starting to believe that it's a possibility that everyone might have them. Some days are good, others aren't. Be glad that you got through a bad day with at least 500 words down -- and for that matter, even if they are crap, they're still better than nothing. Some of my favorite scenes from my writing started out in a pretty crappy state, and then with a round or two of editing (in the days following the initial writing) they turned into really powerful scenes. Maybe the fact that they were come-from-behind in that way is why they are my favorite? Who knows. But here's hoping that this "crappy" scene turns into one of your favorites in the next few weeks or months. Don't sweat the little setbacks!

I had a day about five days in where I wrote about 1500 words -- and then deleted all of them the next day. Sigh.

so I know how you feel -- hopefully tomorrow you'll break through this wall!! :)

Instead of deleting, I cut and paste them into a separate document. It makes the 'deleting' easier (I don't feel like I'm obliterating all that hard work) and on those occasions when I change my mind and decide that version 1.0 is actually better than version 2.0, I can just paste them back in instead of trying to recreate them.

I learned this trick from Rachel Vincent. :)

Sometimes the only way to break through is to keep writing words you delete until you find the right words. I hope today's writing goes better!