Novel rewrite currently at 24.5k, plus woke up with a short story title in my head and had to get it down, along with about 450 words of a story start, while the morning coffee was brewing. 'Thon goals met. Way behind on Apex editing, but that's what Friday is for. Zombies still eating my brain. (They eat very slowly, it seems.)

 I'm in the midst of proofing Write-a-thon participant pages (http://clarionwest.org/events/writeathon/2009), so I thought I'd share a bit of that process with the world.

Step One: Caffeinate. 
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Well, the WaT is officially over, and I think I'm going to call it a success.  Not all of my word count this week was on the novel in progress, but it was still 7000 new words of some sort or other, so even if my story isn't at the 42k mark yet, it's almost there and I have some other fancy new files of text.

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Final cumulative word count for week five of the WaT: 35,895.  Here's to 42,895+ for week six.  Hooray!

And yes, after the write-a-thon is over, I promise to post something more than word counts and sketchy math.

Almost there...

Week 5 of the WaT has been an interesting one...I've been trying something new: morning writing.  I've tried to get a good chunk of wording in before work each day this week (easier on the days I worked at home).  Most of you know I'm not a morning person, so stop laughing at the thought of me writing coherent sentences while sipping ( Read more... )

Woo hoo!  Squeaked in my words for the week despite procrastination.  The new novel currently stands at 28,474, with a goal of 35,000 for next week, which puts me on track for 42,000 by the end of the WaT if I continue to make my weekly word count (yes, I miscalculated in an earlier post--my brain has always, for unknown reasons, blocked the ( Read more... )

Current WaT progress:

My goal for this week is to reach 21,000 words on the novel-in-progress, which will give me my 7k for the week and then some. So far, I'm doing well enough to go for the worm-colored widget:


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Only 2500 out of 7000 words completed so far this week.


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Hooray for widgets! (Thanks to
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