So, I actually did it. I just finished my second novel, bringing my total word count to...

*drum roll...*

151,258 wordsWhew. It's kind of surreal, knowing that it's all over. I just spent thirty days pumping out two novels, and I actually managed to achieve my personal goal of 150k. I'm not really able to enjoy it fully, because ( Read more... )

So things haven't been going so well. I'm still ahead of schedule, as far as I can tell, but just barely. I don't know what's going on, but I've just been ridiculously unmotivated. I have become obsessed with ohnotheydidnt for absolutely no reason, and I check it every ten minutes or so because it is so strangely addicting. It's really a problem. But I can't ( Read more... )

So today I passed 100k. Whoo! As of now my total word count is around 102k. It makes me happy, but I was hoping to do more this weekend. I kept getting sucked into various LJ communities and of course the great black hole of procrastination that is YouTube. I managed to get 5k each day, but my weekends are usually far more productive ( Read more... )

So, I'm not really flyin' like I was with my last novel. Aces High just doesn't seem to be doing it for me. I mean, I'm excited to be working on it, but I find that I'm making good use of that buffer I built up (i.e., I'm letting myself fall behind on daily word counts). So, I'm still ahead of where I need to be, but I really don't want to keep up ( Read more... )

So, I finished Aces Wild mere seconds ago. I finally brought the story to a good closing point, and I JUST MADE IT past the 75k mark. The final word count is 75,786 ( Read more... )

I just passed 50k! Yay! *dances* So at this point, I'm about three days ahead of schedule. We'll see how long that will last. Here's a hint: NOT THAT LONG ( Read more... )

Just a quick post to say that I am about halfway done with Aces Wild, meaning I'm about a quarter of the way to my total goal. My word counts have been getting increasingly lower with each passing day, but that's because weekdays suck (especially Tuesdays and Thursdays), and I spent several precious hours working on a stupid psych paper that's due ( Read more... )

Time for a slightly off-topic post (only slightly, though ( Read more... )

Just a quick update to say that I've passed 25,000. 25k in two days is definitely a personal best, but I know the worst is yet to come. I'm only one-sixth of the way to my final goal, which isn't all that impressive. Plus, I have a week of assignments and papers coming up. So my buffer won't protect me for much longer ( Read more... )

So day one is going GREAT so far. I managed to bang out 3800 words between midnight and 2 am. Then I got a couple hundred in before going to CVS to stock up on CHEAP CANDY. I got a big bag of Reese's candy and a birthday card for 48 CENTS. HUZZAH. Then, after lunch, Brittany I had a little mini "write-in" in the Watson lounge. That was super-fun, ( Read more... )