Hey guys and gals.
As the subject heading says, I just hit the 60k word count on my first novel, and I have an estimated goal of 120k for the finished manuscript, so I am half way there.
It has been a struggle for me to get this far - not because I did not like the story or hit a creative wall...not really. I just got sooo busy with everything else in my life that I was not writing. So for Lent, instead of giving something up, I decided to write every day and had a goal of just 500 words per day - if I wrote less I tried to make it up, but if I wrote more it did not count toward the next day's word quota. I have met or exceeded my goal almost every day so far and in the five weeks since I started this (start date was just before Lent on Feb 22nd), I have written about 25k worth of my total to date.
Now I have a new goal - to keep writing two pages per day (my new material is all hand written in notebooks) and to complete my novel (or reach 120k) by the end of June.
Wish me luck!
As the subject heading says, I just hit the 60k word count on my first novel, and I have an estimated goal of 120k for the finished manuscript, so I am half way there.
It has been a struggle for me to get this far - not because I did not like the story or hit a creative wall...not really. I just got sooo busy with everything else in my life that I was not writing. So for Lent, instead of giving something up, I decided to write every day and had a goal of just 500 words per day - if I wrote less I tried to make it up, but if I wrote more it did not count toward the next day's word quota. I have met or exceeded my goal almost every day so far and in the five weeks since I started this (start date was just before Lent on Feb 22nd), I have written about 25k worth of my total to date.
Now I have a new goal - to keep writing two pages per day (my new material is all hand written in notebooks) and to complete my novel (or reach 120k) by the end of June.
Wish me luck!