Word Count

My goal is to write 10,000 words a week.  So far this has been doable most weeks.  Last week I was distracted and didn’t get as far as I would have liked. Since my goal deadline for finishing this book is June 30th, Monday I was a woman on a mission.  I wrote 5,000 words.  Then Tuesday I put in another 4,000 words.  I was so jacked!  Today less than 500.  Womp, womp.  It would have been really nice to keep up that 5,000 words a day momentum, but I’m happy with the book so far.  I know I’m going to miss the deadline but it won’t be by much.

So after resolving my self imposed deadline stress I discovered a second issue:  the self imposed word count goal.  Book 2 is just over 68,000 words right now.  The goal for this book is 82,000 words.  I don’t know if it’s gong to make it.  I’m sure it will be at least 75,000 but it’s about time to get to the resolution.  I freaked out like this a little bit with book 1 at the 66,000 mark so maybe this is my pattern?  Does anyone else have anxiety in the home stretch?