September 6th, 2008 § § permalink
I can’t believe I forgot to post about this when I actually did it. I gave a little bit of a Yattai! when I totalled it up. I topped 20,000 words in The Nine Mothers! Now it actually feels like I can make it! I am not sure about making to to 100K, but I’m pretty sure (judging by what’s happened in the first 20K) that there will be at least 75K before this story has been told.
As of this writing, I’m at 20,253 words total (I have a spreadsheet which does some simple addition since there are two threads to the story which I keep in separate OpenOffice documents).
September 3rd, 2008 § § permalink
Fiction Writing This Week: 2,260
Non-Fiction Writing This Week: A bunch
I believe that’s the first time (since I’ve been keeping track) that I’ve topped 2,000 words in a week! I was inspired! I’ve been writing some somewhat tough scenes, too, in that, I already know what happens before and after the scene, but I’m filling in what actually happens so that readers don’t have to make spectacular jumps of logic to follow the story. And in doing so, I am now only 517 words away from 20,000 in The Nine Mothers of White Home. With a goal of 90-100,000 that puts me at 20% done! That actually seems like a decent number.
April 15th, 2008 § § permalink
Yes, I’ve now written more than 30,000 words… too bad it’s spread across three different projects. This time, the 10,000th word was something just as interesting as she or date. For Hear the Grass Grow, the 10,000th word is: note.
And, I’m only 207 words behind my goal average of 500 per day. So, I’ve only fallen an average of 17 words per day since the first time I reached the 10,000 word milestone on 2/15 (exactly 2 months ago – and March was a pretty weak month for my writing; the counts for February and April look a lot better).
