Literary Abominations

January 19: I wrote 2,000 words today! I dictated a rather brutal battle scene and had to take a break to decompress. Hit a little to close to home, but the words felt good.

January 17: I wrote 100 words, but it wasn't zero in spite of real life. Gotta take the wins where I can!

January 18: I wrote 1,400 words today, but now I am into the action scenes so tomorrow will really take off. That brings the story up to 87,000 words!

January 12: I wrote 528 words this day, but spent a lot of time moving chapters around to fix the pacing. Before this, the book was too meandering and now the roadmap is in sight for a grand finale! January 13: I wrote 923 words this day, but lost some to edits and did a lot of research for my next...

jdsawyer wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:33 pm The count is getting up there. Where do you think you'll top out?

I will probably hit the 110-120K word range, that is what they want for our contract with Audible Studios for the audiobooks.

January 3: I wrote 500 words into the work in progress. January 4: I wrote 100 words of progress into the work in progress, more but I lost a lot of numbers to edits. January 5: I wrote 900 words into the work in progress. January 6: I wrote 500 words into the work in progress and did 1,500 words o...

January 1: I wrote 116 words today, but got an extension.

January 2: I wrote 784 words today, bringing me up to 77,000 words and into the meat of the action so fingers crossed that this kicks off into high gear!

Day 28: I wrote 1,500 words

Day 29: I wrote 1,000 words.

Day 30: I wrote 100 words today, sadly. Life has been rough lately, but I will overcome!

Day 31: I wrote 500 words today, but 2020 only ends once!

Day 24: On this day in 2020 I wrote 1,000 words, so my low days are going up. I'll take this progress, even as I miss this deadline. Day 25: I wrote 1,000 words, which is forward progress. Day 26: I wrote 1,000 words this day, more forward progress. This was in spite of losing the microphone I need...

Pick your name by what fits your genre best. As a guy, if you wrote romance, I'd suggest that you use a feminine name. Otherwise, just pick something you like and could answer too if you ever went to an in-person event.

Day 19: I only wrote 200 words as I restructured the book to fix pacing issues. Day 20: I wrote 100 words as I continued restructuring things to fix pacing issues. Day 21: I wrote 989 words on this day, after making sure the first quarter was properly paced. Working on getting up to the place I sto...