100,000 Words and Counting…

101,102 to be precise.

The past few weeks haven’t been the most productive, writing-wise, so I’ve been excited to get back into my usual routine this week.  With end of summer activities, the start of school…I really feel like I need a nap and have been more or less constantly fighting the urge to take one.  Still, while this week hasn’t been my most productive writing week ever, it has been productive.  There’s still a significant portion of this story to write, so it’ll be interesting to see where I end up splitting it into two.  I probably won’t decide until the entire first draft is complete.  I’m also not sure, at this point, if my working title is the title I’ll stick with.  We shall see.  I maintain, though, that strange as it is this story will appeal to a lot of people.  It’s my first modern day effort!

Those of you who follow along know that my goal is 2,000 words per day; sometimes I get lucky and write more than that but sometimes, I don’t.  So, by the end of today, I’ll probably have a whole…103.  Is that discouraging?  Sometimes, particularly when you’re excited to see how a story turns out.  And yes, that happens to the author, too.  But I’ve come to think of it, in light of my recent activities, like losing weight: every little bit counts.  A thousand words here, a thousand words there, and suddenly you have a novella.  Keep pushing, and that novella lengthens into a novel.

Question: would anyone be interested in reading a sample chapter or two?