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Day 13 & 14

Day 13 & 14

So yesterday was spent working a lot and actually getting no where. I'm in the middle sat 33,200 words in and I've stalled. I mentioned how I struggles with going back over the my outline and notes, etc. this past weekend. Well on Tuesday as much as I tried and wrote, everything seemed to suck and slow the story down and just feel bad so after a lot of work I've re-written some scenes but made no forward movement on the word count.

Then today, day 14 life came knocking and I spent the entire day working on a family crisis. Nothing life-threatening, but having to do with getting papers done and redone and phone calls made and coordinated a bunch of s**t to get my youngest girl's college admissions squared away and finalized. Long story short no work done today.

Tomorrow I'll hit it twice as hard.

Day 12 - The writing continues

Day 12 - Monday

After three days off from writing, two so that I could review and incorporate edits and then publish a Grace deHaviland Novella called A MATER OF JUSTICE, which is available now here:

Amazon – http://ning.it/143c6Ig

BN.com – http://ning.it/143ctm1

Smashwords. com – http://ning.it/19YWIE3

And one day to review what I've written and go over my plan and outline again to make sure I'm on track to get where I'm going in the story, I wrote 3500 words to bring the total writing to 33,200. That puts me basically a day behind where I need to be to complete 90k in 30 days.

Release Day.

Release date. Today. The latest Grace deHaviland bounty hunter novella A MATTER OF JUSTICE is out and available You can get it here -- http://ning.it/140FDCb

A Change of Pace

Day 9

I took a more or less expected day off from writing today, so I got zero -0- words done.

I say expected because before I started this WIP I had a novella out with an editor being worked on. I knew it would be coming back soon. It came back today, so I spent about four hours going through the changes and incorporating them into the work. I'm about halfway done.

Secondly I spent several hours putting my first Grace deHaviland short story FIRST IMPRESSIONS up on advertising sites to promo the fact it is free in anticipation of driving traffic to my novella and other stories when I release it this weekend.

So by Monday at the latest A MATTER OF JUSTICE, a Grace deHaviland Bounty Hunter novella will be out and available for the public to buy.

Day 8 (a little late)

Day 8 (a little late)

Missed my daily goal of 3000 for the first time since I started this. Only wrote 2200 words.

I'd wanted to get at least to 2500 so that I'd have hit the 30k mark in 8 days, two days ahead of schedule but my brain turned to mush and I found myself just throwing words and the paper and that's not helping anything. So I tossed in the towel for the day and went to the movies.

OT--Saw Sandra Bullock & Melissa McCarthy in HEAT. Hilarious movie. I highly recommend it if your into the buddy-cop, action, comedy genre. Lots of fun.

As for the writing, having reached the 1st third of the project this stoppage is not unusual for me. Typically, around this point its time for me to go back and review my outline and check it against what I've written and make adjustment as necessary--typically the scenes are right and in the right order, but I need to add detail, drop clues, and clean up how and what information is being presented, including making sure the emotional on each character is evident.

so Day 9 will probably be of modest word count gain as I review and edit what's gone before and set myself up for where the stories going for the 2nd third.

Day 7 of my writing challenge

So its day 7

I wrote 4000 words today but after a very rocky start. In truth, I didn't think I was going to make my goal today.

By 12:30 when I broke for lunch and to walk the very insistent dog, I only had 600 words to show for two and a half hours of work. But when I got back to it, the next two scenes went easier and the writing really flowed allowing me to finish ups way better than I thought, though I did work until almost seven pm to do it.

Anyway, with these 4000 words by 7 day total is 27,500.

Day 6 - writing day

Day 6

Up early and walking the dog at like 5:30am. Its chilly so I check the temperature and its 49 degrees! In August.

Brrrrr.

Then I worked out, had breakfast, walked the dog again and started work around 10:30 after doing some e-mails and stuff.

Wrote 3700 words and knocked off at around 5:30.

That gives me a total of 23,500 words over 6 days.

I'm feeling pretty good about this so far.

Day 5 Writing Day

Day 5

I started this morning like I (try to) do every morning with a little cardio workout. Today it was a 2 mile jog on the treadmill for 30 minutes. I find the workout really gets the blood flowing and the brain in gear in the morning.

I wrote from about 10:30 to 5:30 with the standard hour for lunch and to walk the dog, and two other short pee-pee breaks for the dog and me, and completed 3500 words.

My running total for the month is 19,800 in 5 days.

I cleared the month to do this, but I do see a couple of unexpected interruptions coming up. I'll post what they are and how they'll affect what I'm doing, but luckily I've built up a little buffer of words so far, just in case.

Writing Day 4

Day 4

I wrote 3000 words. Brings my four day total up to 16,300. Well above where I wanted to be at this time which was 12000.

Feel really good about where I am but I think I'll soon need to review my outline material and make sure I'm on track with my story points. That is not all that unusual for me. I tend to outline the whole book pretty heavily then not look at any of it until I'm a 1/4 or a 1/3 of the way through, then I go back and touch base and make sure I'm dropping the right clues, red-herring, etc.

Anyway, great fun. Hope everyone else is having a great weekend, too.

Day 3

Day 3

It's Saturday, so a short post. A slow start this morning but then I started picking up speed.

Wrote 4600 words all in over 7 hours. Took only a 20 minute lunch break and only two short dog walks.