5K-a-Day Challenge Kerri's Day #10 Results

End of the Road and Victory is Mine (almost)!

So ladies, we made it to the end of the road and I have good news and bad news and new news to share.

The BAD news...I didn't make the full 50K in 10 days goal (see below for details on how I did).

The GOOD news...BOTH Cera & Dawn took the whole journey with me and BOTH of you win your choice of a Courting Demons ARC or a choice of books from my backlist. Please e-mail me at kerribookwriterATyahooDOTcom to claim your prize and thanks for all your effort and encouragement along the way!

The NEW news...details at bottom of post (hope to see you here).


Here's how I did...

Day #10

11:12 a.m.
I've finally been able to get in a little writing this morning. Still fighting with toddler to get him down for an a.m. nap—he's fussing at me right now, in fact. But I managed to squeeze out 688 words on my first attempt. Will try to get in a few more before lunch. We'll be back in the car for the second leg of our trip this afternoon. I can only hope for a minimally stressful road trip so I can go out on the last day of the challenge with a bang!

11:41 a.m. Update
Got the baby to sleep but now I'm being summoned for lunch with the family. Argh! I was on a roll too. Up to 1318. Was hoping to hit 2K before lunch. Back soon…probably in the car. Keep fingers crossed for a productive afternoon.

2:27 p.m. Update
On the road and writing. That's my new one word motto like Charlie Sheen's #winning. My new word is #writing! LOL I'm up to 2158 and getting back to it in a moment. Gotta write while the writing is good. Kids are appeased for the moment but who knows how long that will last. Today is the last day of our challenge. I can't believe it.

2:52 p.m. Update
I'm on fire. Almost…literally as the sun is coming through the car window and setting my computer keyboard on fire. Need to take a break but I'm at 2926 so far. Trying hard to make it today. Pant. Pant.

5:20 p.m. Update
We are half an hour away from our destination and I've written all that I can write for now. I'm stalling out at 3567 for the day. Wish I could have made it to 5K total today but it wasn't meant to be.

Even though I didn't reach my 50K in 10 days, I came pretty dang close and still managed to push myself to write over 1000 words per day regardless of the obstacles.

And I'm proud to say that in 10 days I wrote

A GRAND TOTAL of 36983 WORDS!

Now, I'm going to take the remainder of the week off from writing and get some other projects done. But I'm going to commit to another challenge starting on August 8th. I'm going to do 4K a day for 7 days. Anyone in?