When I reached 5K today and added up my wordcount for the week, I discovered that with one thing and another, I had written 28,907 words since Sunday. 28,907 is awfully close to a nice round 30,000. And it was slightly before 5pm. “Shit,” I said, and went and wrote another 1100 words so that they wouldn’t be hanging around haunting me tomorrow, which is supposed to be My Day Off. And now it is 6pm, and I have written thirty thousand words this week, and god damn if I…
Tag: writing
Day Four: Triumphant!
Today’s early start meant I finished my 5K before 6pm. If I had been a Truly Swell Person, I would’ve charged along and continued to write until 6, but I’m just not that good a person. At all. But I am 4/5ths of the way through my Writing Blitz week, and tomorrow’s 5K will finish the chapter I’m working on, and probably start another, but it takes me through just about all of the set-up. I think my Big Event–the one that in the original synopsis for THE QUEEN’S BASTARD…
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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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…