With a terrible three days I have fallen a bit behind. I wrote just a few hundred words on Wednesday since I was mostly getting ready for the game. The next two days were also a bit busy and I barely got any writing done. 269 on Wednesday, 729 on Thursday, and 655 on Friday brought me to a total of 9003 which was 2663 words behind my goal. My words per minute fell to a low of 8.9 as well, the brain juices were not flowing.
Saturday I woke up early and bashed out as many words as I could. The story started flowing again and A couple of characters got introduced. I managed to get out a few paragraphs on my break at work as well, and then got in an hour or so when I got home (after watching Constantine with my sweetie.) 2351 words got squeezed out of my head bringing me to 11354.
So now I’m 1979 words behind, just a bit more than a full day. That is fixable. My words per minute jumped up to 15.67 which is a lot more like it! I am now 22.71% of the way done. I have also almost gotten to the part of the book where I stop leaping around in time and get to the main story. That should be fun!
Do you have an idea where the story is going, or do you discover it as you write?
A mix of the two. This year I started with a list of characters and a vague idea of what the book is about. By the end of the first chapter I had ideas about how it would be structured and mapped out the general idea of the first few chapters. When I get stuck I just write something that will happen later in the book and then I have to figure out how to get there.
You are way ahead of me! Haven’t written since the 1st – I’d thought that was going to happen, and it did! Wish me luck for tomorrow!
Go for it!