Wordcount: zilch, nada, zero I’m too tired today and my brain was barely working today when I sat down at the computer. After 30 minutes of realizing it just wasn’t going to happen, I quit. But I do have some good news: Driving later, I put the story in my head and a fun idea…
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Current word count: 39,107 New words written: 354 Words til goal: 893 / 60 words a day til the end of September After two days off, my writing was a bit slower this morning, but I’m trying to get back up to speed and finish this book by the end of the week. I’m now so close to my…
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Current word count: 38,753 New words written: 1,205 Words til goal: 1,247 / 78 words a day til the end of September Down to less than 100 words a day needed to meet my goal. Yay! But this word count is actually for Saturday’s writing, because I didn’t write either yesterday or today, but I’ll be back on track…
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Current word count: 37,548 New words written: 1,722 Words til goal: 2,452 / 129 words a day til the end of September My writing has been zooming along. So close to finishing. Yay! This word count is two days of writing, but I love to see that “til the end of September” number come down. Still hoping to…
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Current word count: 35,826 New words written: 539 Words til goal: 4,174 / 188 words a day til the end of September I’m almost at the end of this novel, and it’s exciting. In the chapter I just started, a bunch of questions from earlier will be answered; it’s an ah ha moment. Then I have the climactic…
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Current word count: 35,287 New words written: 969 Words til goal: 4,713 / 208 words a day til the end of September I got over a hump in my writing today. For the last week, the story hasn’t been flowing as much as it had been. I was still writing, and the story was still progressing, but…
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Current word count: 34,318 New words written: 1,118 Words til goal: 5,682 / 247 words a day til the end of September I had another no-writing day on Friday, but managed to make up for it the other days. My writing has slowed a lot, I think because I’m at a place that’s unfamiliar. But, I’m doing…
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Current word count: 33,200 New words written: 1,317 Words til goal: 6,800 / 252 words a day til the end of September On Tuesday, I overslept and didn’t write, but the other days have been slow but I’ve kept up my goals. My day-job has been busy and frying my brain, though — hence no blog posts…
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Current word count: 31,883 New words written: 1,622 Words til goal: 8,117 / 270 words a day til the end of September For today’s whopping words written count, I’d like to thank our local Ford dealer service department. Our car needed a check-up, so I had to get up early to get to the dealership early enough…
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Current word count: 30,261 New words written: 1,205 Words til goal: 9,739 / 314 words a day til the end of September Wow! I’ve passed 30K Yay! I’m in the home stretch and wrote another chapter this weekend. I thought I had only four chapters left, but it has turned into five (for now) because I found…
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