Day Six: Novel Challenge

Looking more and more likely this novel challenge will be eight days instead of seven. Again today just not enough time in the day and not enough power in these old eyes to deal with too many computer hours.

But as I said to the writers I was walking with this afternoon, isn’t it a weird perspective when a 4,200 word day was a failure? (grin)

So anyhow, today I did a ton of running around after getting out of here around 2:30 and managed to get to some exercise with the guys around 4 p.m. Made my 10,000 steps easily today.

Then did some grocery shopping and some stuff at the WMG office before heading home around 7 p.m. I did some e-mail and a bunch of the workshop assignments, then took a nap while Kris cooked dinner.

About 5.5 hours of work and exercise.

Got back in here to do the workshop assignments around 9:30 and by 11 p.m. I was at my writing computer. (As you can see, getting there that late made the 8,000 words wanted impossible.)

Another 1.5 hours of work.

Got 1,200 words done by 12 midnight before taking a break to watch a little television.

Got back writing around 1 a.m. and got 1,300 words done by 2 a.m.

Short break, another 1,400 words by just a bit after 3 a.m.

Short break and another 1,100 words by 4 a.m.

One more short break and another 900 words before I just called it a night.

So 5,900 words for the day. I’ll take it.

About 5 hours of writing time.

I have meetings tomorrow and my 10,000 steps to get, so kind of doubt I’ll have enough words tomorrow to finish the book. But never know. I’ve done eleven thousand word days before. Doubt it will happen, since writing a novel in eight days is just fine as well. (grin)

This is a prime example of what I mean when I say “Fail to success.”

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Day 1… 3,000 goal… Actual words… 3,100.  Total so far… 3,100 words
Day 2… 4,000 goal… Actual words… 4,400.  Total so far… 7,500 words
Day 3… 5,000 goal… Actual words… 5,100.  Total so far… 12,600 words
Day 4… 6,000 goal… Actual words… 6,200.  Total so far… 18,800 words
Day 5… 7,000 goal… Actual words… 4,200.  Total so far… 23,000 words
Day 6… 8,000 goal… Actual words… 5,900.  Total so far… 28,900 words
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Day 7… 9,000… Total word count to be over… 42,000 (or end of book)

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