Today's progress report...
Today's current word count?
30,314
Which, I'm stunned at. Because I still have to write around episode 11,14 and bits of 15. And I really did think at the start that I'd be lucky to get 25k out of the season, that I might go beyond it. Then I wrote the last scene third and gave up that idea. And then I thought I'd get to 25k ok, and then I thought I might be able to push it to 30.
But to be beyond that with stuff to go?
*boggles*
This is officially the longest thing I've written in years, certainly since Nimoy came along. And it's a big deal for me.
Which is good because we had day one of standardised testing (English) in school today. And man, I've been teaching all year, but you'd never know it. Well, I suppose the bottom third of my class all came up, which is good. But the other two thirds were a mixed bag, they either went up by a little, or down by a little/a lot. Which, with sixth class in May, and they've already checked out I kinda get...but man is it depressing!
Maths is on Thursday, so we'll see how that goes... I always feel a bit more confident with maths because the English, with vocab and comprehension, especially the vocab because if they don't read, and they don't, they're screwed... but then again, that could be bad because they could do crap on it! Still, at least this year there will be no assaults in the classroom, so I'm one up on last year!
30,314
Which, I'm stunned at. Because I still have to write around episode 11,14 and bits of 15. And I really did think at the start that I'd be lucky to get 25k out of the season, that I might go beyond it. Then I wrote the last scene third and gave up that idea. And then I thought I'd get to 25k ok, and then I thought I might be able to push it to 30.
But to be beyond that with stuff to go?
*boggles*
This is officially the longest thing I've written in years, certainly since Nimoy came along. And it's a big deal for me.
Which is good because we had day one of standardised testing (English) in school today. And man, I've been teaching all year, but you'd never know it. Well, I suppose the bottom third of my class all came up, which is good. But the other two thirds were a mixed bag, they either went up by a little, or down by a little/a lot. Which, with sixth class in May, and they've already checked out I kinda get...but man is it depressing!
Maths is on Thursday, so we'll see how that goes... I always feel a bit more confident with maths because the English, with vocab and comprehension, especially the vocab because if they don't read, and they don't, they're screwed... but then again, that could be bad because they could do crap on it! Still, at least this year there will be no assaults in the classroom, so I'm one up on last year!