Woo Hoo! I finally cracked 15,000 words and I am well on the way to 20,000. As I write this my word count has crept up to 17185 and it is only 8:00pm. I still have two to three hours left before I have to get some sleep. I may even reach 20000 before I go to bed tonight! According to my trusty Excel spreadsheet, at this stage I need to write about 2190 words a day to reach 50000 words by November 30th. This is probably doable but I am going to bet that I will be doing a fair chunk of that writing over the following 2 weekends, rather than during the week.
Of course, I have had other things to do which have occupied my normal writing time. Last night I went out for my friend K’s birthday part at a great buffet restaurant, which was great (and to be honest, I needed the break and the company.) Both yesterday and today I had shopping to do, so I probably could have written more than I have but over the past two days I have written 3354 words and counting. That’s a pretty significant achievement in itself.
Although I am aiming to reach that magical goal of 50000 words, I have been editing while I write, which has slowed me down a little bit. I tend to write in two ways – firstly by outlining and then filling in a scene and secondly, just writing things down in a mad scramble as they come to mind. Usually this means I have to fill in quite a lot of dots in all of the in between bits. This isn’t such a bad thing because when I go back, I actually add in more description etc than I would have if I had continued on with it.
Off to do some more.
