May 31
New Writing Progress
My parents spent the Memorial Day holiday weekend with me, so much of the two days I took off last week after May Sweeps ended were spent cleaning house in preparation of their visit. We had a good time, and they left Monday morning.
On Sunday night, I pulled out the laptop and wrote a bit after they retired for the night. (Not that I’m a party animal by any means, but I ususally stay up later than they do.) After they left, I wrote more, and went back and revised a couple of my most recent chapters.
I’ve now crossed the 200th page mark, and I have updated my “word meter” on the sidebar reflecting what I had completed by the end of Sunday night. I’m going to try to enforce my 10-page weekly goal again, even during July Sweeps because it’s not nearly as involved or stressful as May can be. I’m approaching the 70% mark of my overall goal for this novel, although the 60,000 word goal is arbitrary; the finished product may be more or less. I won’t stop at 60,000 if there’s more left to be told, and I certainly have no intention of padding the prose just to reach that many words if I’ve said what I have to say.
But I can say this: it does feel good to be working on the novel again.
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June 1st, 2005 at 6:25 am
I’m glad to see you’re getting back to your work. Writing is like exercise: if you don’t do it every day (or near to it) you never get anywhere.