First Draft Completed by 04 July 2015

Just adding my goal here for future reference. I'm 22,000 words in and aiming for 80,000 which I think I can complete by July 4th, 2015. That gives me 207 days from today to complete 58,000 words so... 280 words per day - which is about 2 hours/day for me.

To be honest, completing the novel in 2015 or even just completing it at all is a pretty big victory, so if I don't make my goal by then, I won't be crushed. Still, I'd have to reschedule my book tour and that would be inconvenient.

So, after all that time I'm up to.... 23,500 words. A little short of my goal. <Excuses here.>... but now I'm back on it. I axed one chapter entirely and had to re-write it so it that took some time.

So I think my new goal will be 50,000 words total by the end of the year, which seems feasible. The trick is to find something tasty to feed my motivation monster.

egearbox said:

Every bit helps! Congrats on getting to 23,500 words! I have huge amounts of notes, outlines, graphs, and charts, now all I have to do is sit down and use them.

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Thanks! Up to 27,000 words now, but I've hit a slow point at the moment.

Good luck on yours!

I so failed at my goal - but I haven't given up. I'm up to 30k words now and going strong (for now).

My new goal (so I can laugh at its optimism later) is to have 60k words done by 2017.

Thanks! I seem unusually motivated lately, so it's going well. I'm up to 31,600 at the moment. I'd blame it on the New Year, but I think it's probably more likely just having some time off of work. Either way, I'll take it!