Onward!
Word count on Breath of Earth as of last night:
I'll be crossing over to 80,000 today. My Excel document is estimating that I'll make my 90k goal by next Wednesday at my current rate. I'm not really sure if I need that many words to wrap up this draft. Really, anything over 80k is fine, because I know I'll be adding in the next few drafts. I also may need to write slower this week because I don't entirely know what will happen. I know some things, sure, but not everything. I get to find out with my characters.
So far I'm 12/12 on the Poem a Day Challenge and there's only one poem I immediately chucked in the "Junk" folder. A few of them I really, really like. It is amazing how long it can take to write a 20 line poem, though, and how it eats into the novel writing time.
Getting these poems polished and submitted will be one of my big goals for Writo de Mayo. That, and doing a fill-in-the-known-gaps pass on Breath of Earth.
I'll be crossing over to 80,000 today. My Excel document is estimating that I'll make my 90k goal by next Wednesday at my current rate. I'm not really sure if I need that many words to wrap up this draft. Really, anything over 80k is fine, because I know I'll be adding in the next few drafts. I also may need to write slower this week because I don't entirely know what will happen. I know some things, sure, but not everything. I get to find out with my characters.
So far I'm 12/12 on the Poem a Day Challenge and there's only one poem I immediately chucked in the "Junk" folder. A few of them I really, really like. It is amazing how long it can take to write a 20 line poem, though, and how it eats into the novel writing time.
Getting these poems polished and submitted will be one of my big goals for Writo de Mayo. That, and doing a fill-in-the-known-gaps pass on Breath of Earth.
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