Day Ten

And we're on 22,000 words! I'm pleased to have broken the 20K mark, and will be even happier to break the 30K. I'm a bit worried right now, but the plot is starting to take a life of it's own beyond the outline, so it should start fleshing out to get me to the 50K mark.

I hope.

In the meantime, I'm starting a new job soon. Hurrah for gainful employment!

Also working on All Opposed a bit here and there. Been watching too much sci-fi I suppose. To the left is the MC, Lavender, as she appears in her introduction.

And never again. Bright colors...I had to tone down that yellow, way too bright in the first version. I pretty happy with this one though. Watercolor is my friend.

Anyhow, as usual Vampirism and You is now demanding I return to it.

Cheers!

Day Twenty Eight

Blood Lines has at last come to a close at 52000 words. Whew. Surprising for me as I thought it would go longer. Of course, there's still the sequel to rework but that's another month all together.

After much thought, I've decided that trying to write 50K words each month in addition to the goal of finishing the pre-existing novel at over 50K total word count is stressing me out past expectations.

Thus, I've decided to cut the goal to simply finishing one novel per month at a word count over 50K. NaNoWriMo is coming up soon and that one will be a brand new novel and 50K in a month. Keep in mind, the novels get shorter and less finished as I go on, so my word count goes up each month.

Part of this is that I noticed I was concentrating more on the side projects meant to bump word count than I was on the project I intended on finishing, and that ruins the point of the challenge completely.

This writing year is about focus.

Day Twenty-five

First Three Months:


Well, I wrote 5409 words today! (Thus far) and have passed the halfway mark. That leaves about 22000 words to go over the next five days. Pretty sure I can do that. Pretty sure.