I’m happy to report that I’m on-schedule, and that I hit my 7th week goal in the 13-week plan, but — for the first time in a while — I’m exactly on-schedule and not running ahead. It’s not been a great week for writing On Monday, I was dealing with the water company telling me…
Week 6/13: 50,784 words
It’s been way too long since I’ve had this good of a run. 50,784 words ain’t bad! And look! Four-and-a-half beats done out of eight! Seeing those circles fill up is a real motivator. Revising the 14-week plan I’m slightly ahead of schedule again. Beat 5 is half-done, which wasn’t due until next week, so…
Week 5/14: Fuck the words
I’m getting more and more frazzled that I don’t have a place to write anymore. Do you know where I get my best words-per-hour these days? The bus. The fucking bus on my way home from my day-job. I’m distraught. I’m not sure I can think of a better word. When I discovered that I…
Week 4/14: 40,364 words
I’m not going to say much in this week’s update, because I don’t have much positive to say. This week’s word count sucks. I’m really feeling the loss of my personal space. I don’t have a private place any more for writing in, and I feel decreasingly “safe” in the space that I have. My…
Week 3/14: 35,409 words
Check it out! 35,409 words! Revising the 15-week plan This first draft is going so well, I’m a week ahead of schedule again! According to the 15-week plan, I should have beat 2/8 finished by today and beat 3/8 half-done by next week. Actually, beat 3/8 is well over half-done already! So, I’m knocking the…
Week 2/15: 26,454 words
Week 2 of 15? Shouldn’t that be 16? It was, but I’m ahead of schedule! Revising the 16-week plan According to the original 16-week plan, I should have beat 1/8 totally done by today, and beat 2/8 half-done by next week. Well, beat 1/8 is done (in fact, I over-wrote slightly) and I’ve already hit…
Week 1/16: 20,566 words
It’s the end of the first week of my 16-week plan and I’m on-target! I needed to get the first beat half-done, and I hit that 5,000-word goal! Overall, the story is at 20,566 words now, which has nudged me over the 25% milestone! I wish I’d done a bit more I didn’t record my…
My 16-week writing plan
Nyargh. This weekly update is a day late because I’ve been wiped the fuck out by food poisoning. But apart from that… It’s been a great week! Last week, I was still working on the four main characters’ 4,000-word point-of-view summaries. And now they’re done! And — oh boy — it was definitely worth doing…
2018 mid-year writing check-in
Oh, look! We’re half-way through the year! I wonder how I’m getting on with my goals for 2018? Surely I’m half-way through completing them, right? …right? At the end of 2017, I set myself these three goals for 2018: Publish a novel. Submit stories to three anthologies. Write 1,000 words per day more often than…
Still filling in some gaps
Oh, what a week. I hope you were all more productive than I’ve been! London, baby! I had a trip to London this week to attend a technology unconference, so I had a few days less to write in. I did manage to get some writing done on the train, but I can only take…
