Week 33: 4529 words, 113% of
Week 33 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 131,240 words, 43.7% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

You have to pay attention to what story you really want to tell. It's easy to feel pressured by ideas of the kind of story you should tell as opposed to the kind of story you naturally can tell. - Jill McCorkle

Week 32: 4074 words, 102% of
Week 32 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 126,711 words, 42.2% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Week 31: 5064 words, 127% of
Week 31 goal: 3000 words

Running total: 122,637 words, 40.9% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around. -Stephen King

Week 30: 2247 words, 56.2% of
Week 30 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 117,573 words, 39.2% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

Well, that sucked. Moving on. (Edited 7/30, since I missed a few pages of hand-written stuff. Slightly less sucky.)

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and ( Read more... )

Week 28: 2109 words, 52.7% of
Week 28 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 113,440 words, 37.8% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

Week 29: 1886 words, 47.2% of
Week 29 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 115,326 words, 38.4% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine. It burns wildly but accomplishes nothing. - Robert

Week 27: 5672 words, 142% of
Week 27 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 111,331 words, 37.1% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

Monthly words for June: 27,064 (102 words less than the January total, but a higher words-per-day average).

There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite ( Read more... )

Week 26: 8054 words, 201% of
Week 26 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 105,659 words, 35.2% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

Most words in a week since the beginning of the year. \o/ June, I think, will be bigger than January was, or at least very close.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities ( Read more... )

Week 24: 5109 words, 128% of
Week 24 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 92,150 words, 30.7% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

Week 25: 5455 words, 136% of
Week 25 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 97,605 words, 32.5% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

(I'm going to hit 100k this week. HOLY CRAP.)

Your ambition as an artist is to give voice to the deep, ( Read more... )

Week 23: 6244 words, 156% of
Week 23 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 87,041 words, 29% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

We mustn't confuse the dimming commercial prospects of prose and poetry with their emotional and spiritual worth." - Steve Almond

Week 21: 2230 words, 55.8% of ( Read more... )