Today is the halfway point to my NaNoWriMo deadline of November 30. Unfortunately, I’m still behind in my target word count—today should be 25,000 words. Still, though, I got a little jolt of happy to see my total creep past the 20,000-word mark. At 1.5 spacing, that’s nearly 60 pages of not very good prose! Way more than I’ve ever committed to a single document, fiction or otherwise. So I’m going to give myself a little pat for that and try to get up to at least 22,000 by bedtime tonight. I’m also hoping to finish this gigantic editing project I’ve been laboring on for the past several weeks. Only 1 1/2 chapters to go on that, which I should be able to knock out by the end of today. Once that’s off my plate I can really pick up the pace with my writing.
November 15, 2009
Always Double Back 
November 16, 2009 at 11:11 pm
WOW for trying to get to 22,000 words! what are you writing about anyway?! i can get an easy 500 words with a blog entry by rambling and such, but I had a tough time getting 500 words for college papers, i always wished ‘the end’ counted but it never did!
November 22, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Now I’m past 30,000. I think this will remain a private book. Not that it’s anything too racy, but it’s just an exercise. Maybe next year I’ll do a “real” book.