September 15, 2003
70,000!
It's like rolling your odometer over, but with a greater sense of accomplishment. Whee!
So I took a three-day
So I took a three-day weekend from writing. This wasn't entirely intentional, but it wasn't entirely a bad thing, either. I attacked things this morning, and wrote a couple of scenes that I really found pretty exciting. This is the neat thing about writing a novel. I'm finding that I'm having the same excitement about writing the scenes leading up to a climax as I would if I were reading the same scenes in someone else's book. Yeah, I said 'a' climax, because there's at least two.
My September 30th deadline may not come to pass. We'll see. If I miss it, however, I shouldn't miss it by much. Not unless I'm wildly off about how much time it's going to take me to wrap up the rest of the story. Going to cross the 70K word mark this afternoon, barring catastrophe, officially making this the longest thing I've ever written. Heck, I think it already is. I think The Host topped out at about 63K.
Very excited about this now. Excited to have a draft finished.
Weekly progress report
Forgot, once again, to post this last night.
Weekly word count: 7231
Last week: 6870
Highest day: 2775 (Tuesday)
Not bad at all, especially when you consider that I didn't write Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. I can't remember the last time I took three whole days off. I think it was a good thing. But now it's time to get back to work!
