A little bleep to be rectified :(


   October 8, 2012 - Total to date 24,985 words  I was pretty well keeping up to my daily goal of 2,000 words per day, and then - low and behold – I was sabotaged by a holiday, which, in my ultra dumbness, I hadn't taken into consideration. Our Canadian Thanksgiving is supposed to be today (Monday October 8th), but my family had to come home on the weekend. So what's a mom going to do? Ignore her son and keep up her word count, or…?? I, naturally, chose…or! I mean keeping up with my schedule is important to me. When I set a goal, I do it with all intentions of succeeding. So, this little bleep will have to be rectified. Sure that sounds pretty cheeky doesn't it? Well the truth is - if I want to finish the book by the deadline of October 15th, and there are only so many days left, I quite simply have to divide the word count that I'm aiming for by those days. In the beginning, my brilliant deduction –ahem –told me that if I wrote 2,000 words a day, it would get done. Finished! Success! Uh-oh! So…now I have to make up for two days and that's – let me see…Yep! - 4,000 words. With 7 days left, I need to write approximately 20,000 words uhhh…divided by 7…..ummm …holy shut the door…2,700plus words a day. Right! No problem….gulp! Gottta go now and if you don't hear from me for a few days, you'll know why. Wish me luck!!! …Now what the heck did I do with that bottle of eye drops??  

  
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Published on October 08, 2012 23:43
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message 1: by Beverly (new)

Beverly Wells Where does the time go when you're trying to have fun? Now you've got to cram like crazy to pay for that "jolly good time. YIKES! But yeah, it was worth it...wasn't it? We're all glutons for punishment. Good luck on finishing on time.


message 2: by Mimi (new)

Mimi Barbour Thanks Beverly. I have till the end of today and I'm pretty sure I'll be writing those two magic words "The End" just have to get through the business stuff first and a little bit of catch up writing to good friends also :-)


message 3: by Beverly (new)

Beverly Wells Hope you make the end by the end of the day. I too had to scramble over the weekend to make revisions for an agent who asked for a few before she'd send out to publishers. Minor but still a rat race. I made it, now waiting eagerly. But what can we say, we asked for this crazy world didn't we? People do say writers are nuts. And now I believe them.


message 4: by Mimi (new)

Mimi Barbour I didn't get mine done in time...had to go to the next day. There was a chapter nmissing and I knew there was a hole...so I wrote it and took the extra day. Now I'm happy with the work.
Glad you got yours done in time...and my friend...you are so right...we are nuts!!! Great isn't it??? lol


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