In case any one reads this and thinks I’m creating a fabulous artistic work in 31 days, rest assured, if I put that kind of pressure on myself, I’d never reach the 50 000 word mark. The good news so far is that I seem to be naturally creating a related ‘A’ story and ‘B’ story. Sub-plots have never been a strength so this comes as a great relief. It helps reach that mightly 50 000 word goal if you have more than one character’s story to tell.
I am supposed to have 30 000 words written by midnight tonight to be on schedule. I got woefully off-schedule last week, hanging out with my brother’s visiting family from Peru at the cottage. This week there are visitors from Sweden, staying with my mother-in-law so I haven’t been able to knock off my 1667 daily word quota regularly. For a couple of days, due to a cold plus the smog, I was too sick to write. I just wanted to sleep, cough and blow my nose. I never would have believed it could happen in Toronto.
To catch up, today I am doing a little marathon. Here are the number of words I have written so far:
21 680 (start)
23 905 (before lunch)
25 834 (by 2:33)
26 074 (by 2:45)
26 816 (by 4:35)
27 372 (by 5:00)
This works out, on my word processor, to about 134 pages, typed.
These may look like dull statistics to you, but when I’m working full-time in September, I want to be able to read this blog entry and know I have no excuse not to write more on the weekends!
Happy reading or writing, pick your poison!
Oh God, I hope it wasn’t me who gave you the cold. I tried so hard not to spread any germs…
My grandmother used to blame people for the colds that she caught from them. What’s the point? Colds are everywhere and usually, people who know each other can catch them from multiple sources at the same time. I think I just lost a little too much sleep and became susceptible.
That’s what happened to me in the first place. Well, lack of sleep combined with anxiety. Once I dealt with them both, I was fine.
Glad you’re so deep into the project. And here I am just trying to get motivated to write blog entries.