PaWriCo Week 3 Check-In

Hey all, Sam here.

It has been quite the eventful month, even if it has been not so very productive when it comes to consistent writing, but I should have expected as much because November is usually a difficult month to keep creatively progressing. I know that from 16 years of participating in NaNoWriMo. But that’s one of the reasons why I set my timeline for PaWriCo at the Nov-Jan pace, because while I do want to try and succeed on my word count goals, this is more about me getting into a more regular and consistent writing schedule.

I am happy to report that this week I have actually made some decent progress. But before I get into that, you can find my PaWriCo goal post, as well as my Week 1 and Week 2 check-ins at the links here in case you missed them.

All right, let’s talk writing…

I’m still thinking about “Roll for Romance,” but most of the week I have been firmly focused on “When Dark Meets Light.” And I am very happy to say that I’ve actually been writing. What’s more, I was writing while at work, basically any time I had a few minutes of downtime.

The downside to that is that the words are all hand-written in a little notebook and I just haven’t had the time to type them up and get an accurate word count for what I’ve written.

But, like I said, while I do technically have a word count goal for this PaWriCo event, my main priority is just writing more consistently. Hopefully in my next check-in I’ll have an actual word count to talk about. I don’t really have plans for my days off this upcoming week, so I should have the time to type up everything I’ve written.

I am just so happy to be getting words on the page, and even more than that, I came home from work last night absolutely buzzing about what I had been writing (and it was quite a bit) and just had to start telling my husband all about it. And that made him excited about the story too. Besides, I needed to know what he thought about everything I’d written because he gets a say in all the plot details for “When Dark Meets Light.”

Fun fact, this story is actually backstory for a D&D character I have, one that has been an important part of my life since about 2019. It had started as just a few important scenes to help understand the character, but then I kept adding to it and fleshing it out more and more…and now it’s basically a full-length novel-like story. And since my husband is the Dungeon Master for the campaign I play the character in, I want to make sure that what I’m thinking up doesn’t alter any of his secrets and surprises and reveals for later in the campaign, because he has ideas for what could happen in the future and I don’t yet.

I do have commissioned art for the main character of “When Dark Meets Light.” Would anyone want to see that? Let me know in the comments, and I’ll share her next week if so.

So I’ve written a few times this past week, and I don’t have an exact word count yet, but at least there’s words on the page, and the ideas are swimming in my mind, so I’m ready to write more. It actually feels really good to be writing, and to be excited about writing. I’m hoping I can keep this going and work on adding to my word count every day.

My PaWriCo word count goal was 75,000 words by Jan 31. I used to do 50k in 30 days in November, so managing like 70k in 60-ish days shouldn’t be too hard, so long as I can write consistently.

All right, well that is all from me for today. Thank you so much for stopping by, and I’ll be back soon with more geeky content.