Category: Writing

Goal 1) TAP 2

• My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
• Where I planned to be: 36,000 words
• Where I am: 37,659 words
• On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
It’s an interesting feeling to meet my weekly goal on the first writing day of the week. It’s even more of an interesting feeling to more than double my daily goal and nearly hit my next week’s goal on the second. Ditto when I actually hit my next week’s goal on the third.

Alexithymia is a bitch.

Honestly, I was worried after Sunday because I wasn’t sure where to go next. But I went to my trusty source of writing help (Holly Lisle, of course, her How to Write a Novel class, to be specific) and ran through the appropriate lesson for where I am in the story. And holy shit did I come up with some ideas. One of them was so juicy, the scene I wrote Friday was 1,080 words.

Yes, I wrote over 1,000 words in one day. I’m just as surprised as everyone else.

Goal 1) TAP 2

• My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
• Where I planned to be: 34,500 words
• Where I am: 35,512 words
• On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
I think I’m getting better at motivating myself. Sunday I was having a hard time focusing, and I just said to myself, “Hit the minimum (just under 400) and you can move on to something else.” “A hundred more words, and you can stop.” Then when I hit my minimum, and actually went a little over, I thought, “Well, just fifty more words and you’ll hit your daily goal.” So I finished out the scene I was writing, and ended up with 608 words for the day. \o/

Yesterday I wrote the ultimate “all is lost” moment, even though I really should have more words in the beat before it. (Don’t get me started on story beats, just know it’s an organization/plot development tool for me.) I figure it’s close enough for now, because I’m not sure what else to fit in there, and I feel like anything I come up with now would just be filler, so. Moving the story forward it is.

I’m so far ahead of my goal! It’s crazy. I keep wanting to slack off, take a little break or something, but at the same time I want to keep going over. If I can finish this by December 1st, I’ll be able to start revision at the beginning of next year. Which would be great, considering it will probably take most of the year.

Goal 1) TAP 2

• My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
• Where I planned to be: 33,000 words
• Where I am: 33,817 words
• On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
The scene I wrote Sunday just flew off my fingertips, and I went way over my goal. It didn’t make me cry, but shit was it close. I don’t know what it is or where it’s coming from, but this book is definitely gonna end up more emotional than the first one.

Yesterday’s scene took me a minute to plan out, but once I figured it out, not only did the next scene fall in my lap, but a possible solution for that unfinished scene from last week popped in my head. Funny how that works out sometimes.

Again today I went way over my goal, pretty effortlessly too. I hit my goal for the week yesterday, so my words today are all bonus. Woo! Talk about buffer. And hopefully a sooner finish date. Speaking of…

I feel like I have a long way to go, but really I’m barreling toward the end here. It’s both exciting and terrifying.

Goal 1) TAP 2

• My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
• Where I planned to be: 31,500 words
• Where I am: 31,758 words
• On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
This week’s been so up and down. Despite my planning, getting my words on Sunday was like pulling teeth. I couldn’t seem to focus at all. My anxiety was spiking for no good reason and I couldn’t shake it. Yesterday was great, and I went quite a bit over my daily goal. Then today was rough again. I actually stopped partway through a scene and moved to the next because I can’t figure out how to end it. To be fair, it does deal with an existential question that I’m not even sure how to answer in real life. Gonna have to really think on that one.

What’s really annoying is my scenes have gotten shorter lately, which is dropping my average scene wordcount like a stone. Which in turn makes my estimated number of scenes to go creep up. Not a fan.

Goal 1) TAP 2

• My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
• Where I planned to be: 30,000 words
• Where I am: 30,037 words
• On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Sunday was rough. I couldn’t figure out how to drive the story where I needed it to go. So I pulled a leaf from Holly’s book (surprise surprise) and worked on a couple of scenes that take place much later, one of which I just couldn’t get out of my head until I wrote it. Thankfully, Chris (my boyfriend) and I took a little road trip on Tuesday, so while he drove, I was able to spend some time planning some of the scenes I need in between. Which turned out to be kind of moot for this week, since all of yesterday’s words and almost half of today’s went to one of the aforementioned later scenes.

Oh well. Just means I have a full coffer for next week.