Tag: novels

Goal 1) TAP 2

• My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
• Where I planned to be: 39,000 words
• Where I am: 41,042 words
• On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Sunday was weird, but I did manage to get my words in, finally. It just took me a while to find my focus. Yesterday kinda had me stumped for a while too, but then I realized the perfect way to twist up the ending (can’t have them getting away with anything too easily, right?) and after that I just started flying.

Today I’ve had the most splitting headache since like 3am, but I wasn’t about to let that stop me. Thanks to yesterday’s little epiphany, I almost doubled my daily goal again.

Truth be told, I’m actually shooting for finishing this by December 1st so I can have my month-long resting period before starting the revision first thing at the beginning of next year. It’s doable, but I have to continue going a little over my daily goal to get there.

Again, WPD to Goal is the minimum number of words I need to write per day in order to hit my due date, and the ETA is based on my total word count currently and assuming I only meet my daily goal. So an extra 27 words a day? Totally not gonna kill me. I just have to commit to it.

Goal 1) TAP 2

• My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
• Where I planned to be: 37,500 words
• Where I am: 39,068 words
• On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
I didn’t want to do jack shit on Sunday, but I at least got my bare minimum in (386 words, which was just a smidge over). Considering I’d already met this week’s goal, I figured it’s the least I could do.

Yesterday went well. I could have kept going, but when I checked and realized I’d put down almost 600 words for the day, I figured I’d save the momentum for today. Sure, 1,000 word days are great and all, but that’s just not sustainable for me. Yet.

Today I was busy, so I got down as many words as I could. And what do you know, still hit next week’s goal.

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.