One Week Check Up on the Three Month Challenge

So it has been a whole week on my new schedule and new challenge to finish this novel in three months and then start that process all over again! And it has been going well I’ve written around 22k words in a single week, which puts me a little less than a quarter of the way through the book that I’m expecting. In most cases I’ve always written more than what I am expecting when it comes to short stories and novels though. So with the track I’m currently on I am looking at this book being done in just another month of time. Which puts me ahead of schedule about 3 weeks.

I’m all for being ahead of schedule, and the most interesting thing is that I actually slacked pretty hard on Friday and Saturday. I got maybe a total of 250-1000 words written on those days. To be fair I wasn’t feeling well, with the sudden change from needing the air conditioning on in my home to shivering under the blankets over the course of a single day. But even so I was able to complete my schedule and I got about 3k words written each day for seven days when you split the word count up in total.

I did however notice a little hiccups with my schedule that had to be changed as the day came around. Particularly on Tuesday and Thursday I had myself set to write for roughly 5 to 6 hours straight and that is just too much unless I am really on the ball and excited to write. About 3 hour chunks of writing time seem to work the best and so I split up the writing time and shuffled the schedule around a bit. It was expected to happen that when I got to the day it might change a bit, but for the most part I’ve kept to a schedule the entire week other than Friday. And that’s why I’m thinking of making Friday my weekend day. I can do whatever I want that day when I need to, maybe I’ll get a bunch of writing done, maybe I won’t. Either way by the time Friday came around I needed the break.

So moving forward the schedule has been changed to split up my writing time on Tuesday and Thursdays and I’m nixing the schedule on Friday other than I HAVE to wake up at 8am like all my other days and be in bed by 11pm. This keeps me from doing something radical like sleeping in or staying up til 4am then expecting myself to wake up at 8am the next day.

I’d also like to thank everyone, especially Ksenia Anske for providing me with motivation over the week. I just have to get this book done, it’s been two years since I had touched this series and I had been sitting on this book and the third one for so long that it’s flowing out of me faster than I can write or type.

I’ve also already had a few beta readers take a look at the first 9 chapters that I’ve written and it seems promising so far. It’s enjoyable and has an air that the first book had as well. So I’m happy. This week I’m hoping to aim for 25k words or roughly 8-10 Chapters. We will see how it goes, but I’m enjoying the ride so far.

P. S. I’m also looking into illustrators for my three books in the series. I’m looking for more cartoonish kind of work, rather than realistic. And I have a few people who have already contacted me. The goal is I will be doing trade paperbacks of the first two books at the same time as a digital release for the second book, and a second edition digital release of the first book to all digital reader types.