Writing Update: I'm Quite Happy...

Really...things are going great...

This is kinda how I feel now…Photo by Jill Wellington

Introduction…

I almost forgot to write and post this today…but I didn’t…lol…Anyway…these past two weeks have been quite wonderful…I’ve been writing pretty consistently and I reached a milestone I’m really happy about…I’ve just found a pattern that makes just sitting down and writing easy…stuff gets done…and every day I see WtTB get closer and closer to the finish line I’ve been learning to be less hard on myself and things have just been going wonderfully…

Current Word Count…

So in these past two weeks, I’ve finally reached 20,000 words…currently my word count is 22,500 words…that’s 3,965 words since my last update…which I’m so very happy about…

Just 500…

These past couple of weeks I’ve been writing just about every day…this past week I have been writing every day…except for weekends…I’ve decided I now have weekends off…but this week I’ve been writing only 500 words per day…no more…no less…I’ve found that this helps me so much…because often I have to stop in the middle of a sentence making jumping into writing the next day very easy…also I can’t get tired out if it’s only 500 words per day…it helps me whenever I sit down to tell myself I only need to write 500 words…it takes off so much stress…I’m not sitting down to write until I run out of ideas or time…I’m not sitting down to write until I reach a huge number that if I don’t reach it I’ll feel like I failed…I’m not sitting down to write until my brain doesn’t work anymore…I’m sitting down to write a very small amount of words…so when I’m done I feel like I could keep going…but I save that energy for other things and for writing the next day…it is truly a breath of fresh air…

Going Foward…

If you aren’t a writer…you may think 500 is a lot of words…it’s not…if you are a writer or just enlightened…you know that 500 words is really not that much…it’s not a tiny amount of words…but it’s not a lot…a lot of writers I know write 1,000-2,000 words per day…but that’s okay…you might wonder how I’m gonna finish my book if I only write a little at a time…and I have found that as long as I keep a consistent schedule of 500 words every day 5 days every week….it adds together and WtTB will be done in good timing…500 words per day in 2,500 words per week…and if I’m going for average novel length…80,000 words…that places me at finishing at the end of May…well actually April but I pushed it later cuz I’m taking a trip for Christmas and I don’t intend to write during it…though I will be writing a lot more during Crazy Writing Week in January…it’s so close…and WtTB will likely be less than 80,000 words…I’m still keeping the most likely time I’ll be done at the end of May…so…as long as everything goes well…I’ll be done with the first draft by the end of May…so I’m thinking WtTB will be published late 2025, early 2026 at the latest…there’s a lot of editing that’s gonna need to be done…

In Conclusion…

I apologize for the really long post…but it makes up for all the short ones in the past…lol…I’m really excited to finish WtTB so I can share it with everyone…I feel like it’s been a while since I truly enjoyed writing…but I am enjoying it now…it feels so good…