662 words so far today — my intention is to write more, but I also promised the gf I would help her set up her classroom today. Manuscript total: 76,314. Building this novel out, one brick at a time. 10:16am update — up to 3,413 words, 79,065 total. The number Read more…
1,591 words (as of 7:53am). Manuscript total: 75,419. UPDATE: Added another 233 words later in the day before I got too tired to write… 75,652. I added the time stamp there because I’m hoping to write more than once today. With a little luck, I will update this entry one Read more…
816 words, 74,644 total for the manuscript. I already spent “too much time” writing (which I put in quotes, because is there ever really such a thing??) so I’ve got to keep this post super short: I have three projects today for school, all due about 5pm PDT. After that, Read more…
381. Manuscript total: 73,828. There’s a reason that you didn’t see a progress report from me yesterday… I didn’t write anything. It was one of those mornings when I got busy doing other things and told myself I would write later. Then I had a doctor’s appointment, then I started Read more…
894 words today, 73,447 total for the manuscript. Not quite at the halfway point yet. (Sigh.) Today is the last day of classes for the first term of my grad program, and man alive am I busy. I’m about 98 percent finished with my final project for today’s class, but Read more…
1,102 words. Manuscript total: 72,553. Back in May, after drafting over 75,000 words, I decided I didn’t like what I had written and threw away everything to start over again. It’s taken me three months, but I’m finally almost back to where I was. You might be wondering, did I Read more…
Just for the record, “ophthalmologist” is kind of a hard word to spell. 465 words today, 71,451 total for the manuscript. Not a lot, I know. Yesterday, I didn’t manage to get any homework done, and I have a huge project due today and another one due on Monday. So Read more…
1,345 words today. 70,986 total in the manuscript. You might be looking at that number and wondering why it’s so much higher than all my other numbers for the week. There’s a reason for it: I accidentally tricked myself. A while back, during the last stint of determined productivity I Read more…
After an early morning run, which included an encounter with a tarantula and a rattlesnake (read the whole story here on Facebook), a little bit of arm-wrestling with my web host, and some good old-fashioned procrastination, I wrote 895 words. Manuscript total: 69,641. Here’s a sentence: The Zaris Mountains were Read more…
615 words today. 68,746 total. Third day of regular progress reports. Sick of them yet? I got a little stuck this morning and had to spend too much time looking back at my outline, which I found anemic and unhelpful for this particular section of the novel, so it was Read more…