Day Three: Triumphant!

Somewhere around noon today I realized that I was halfway done with this Writing Blitz, which cheered me up quite a bit. And now I’m 3/5ths done, and am feeling quite Blitzy! Had a bit of a panic when a scene that I hoped would take me through to the end of today’s wordcount didn’t, and left me 500 words shy. But I managed to get the next scene started, and made it to 5K. Furthermore, unless something goes horribly, horribly wrong, I have moved well past the 1/3rd mark.…

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mostly metrics

Mom harangued me into actually getting to the needed quota today, so wordcount for January 2008 is officially 41,200. Not quite in Cherie Priest’s extremely excellent 53K for the month, but well ahead of the 1K a day minimum I set myself. (In fact, for those of you keeping track at home, I’m slightly ahead of the average 1300 words a day I’d need to make the two million mark by the end of the year…a goal which I have no intention of setting.) At some point here I’m going…

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