In terms of word count, today went a little better, though I got trapped into a counterproductive trap.
I was continuing to edit my way back into the scene, adding some description and reflection from my POV character, but after adding a couple paragraphs that I thought were pretty good, I discovered that I had written nearly the same thing in the original draft just a few lines later. So that was a complete waste. I need to remember to read through the whole scene before thinking about how to approach editing it in the future.
Really, I shouldn’t have been editing at all. I should have just read what I’d had written and moved on from there. That would have been better for the story and the draft. Being in mental editing mode keeps me from letting the story flow, I think. I start worrying too much about polish and minor details, instead of getting the draft out.
I did catch up with the end of what I’d had written and manage to make some forward progress with this scene, but since it got interrupted in the middle, it does not feel natural to me anymore – the flow from when I started it is gone – and I’m looking forward to finishing it and moving on.
In the future, I think I should avoid letting coaching tasks interrupt scenes. I should only fit them in between.