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: 29,056 New words written: 541 Words til goal: 10,944 / 332 words a day til the end of September Writing was a bit slow this morning, and just when I was getting somewhere, my hour was up. But I’ve put in notes so I can get started more quickly tomorrow. I caught up on…
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Current word count: 28,494 New words written: 961 Words til goal: 11,506 / 338 words a day til the end of September Ok, full disclosure here. I wrote about 800+ words yesterday, but only a couple sentences this morning. I got up really early today but just couldn’t get my brain into writing gear. I was distracted…
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Current word count: 26,471 New words written: 897 Words til goal: 13,529 / 366 words a day til the end of September Another good writing morning. Looking at my word count, and where I am in the story, I think I’m going to overshoot my 40K goal, but that’s ok. What is it Stephen King says? Your…
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Current word count: 25,574 New words written: 1,688 Words til goal: 14,426 / 380 words a day til the end of September I banged out four days worth of word-a-day goals this weekend, which is great, and I love to see my number of “words a day til the end of September” goal dropping. Maybe I can…
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Current word count: 23,886 New words written: 811 Words til goal: 16,114 / 403 words a day til the end of September Finished the chapter I was having some problems with this morning. Yay! Looking forward to getting a bunch more done this weekend. But now, I have a treat: an interview with picture book author Doris Fisher…
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Current word count: 23,075 New words written: 487 Words til goal: 16,925 / 412 words a day til the end of September Today was the first day in my work on my new novel that the words stumbled a bit. I made my goal, which is great, but I know this chapter is one that will definitely need…
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Current word count: 22,588 New words written: 729 Words til goal: 17,412 / 415 words a day til the end of September Another good writing day. I’m waiting the well to dry up! hahaha Hopefully, not til I’m done. Writing is very solitary work. It’s just you, a computer or notebook and your story in your head.…
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