Somehow I managed to complete 10,332 words of the novel yesterday. It was a second-wind kind of a burst which I hope will now cushion the remainder of the book, which is just a meager 19,000 words from the finish line, which leaves me plenty of time for revisions and twiddling and so forth before the deadline. I am a happy, happy man, with sore fingers.
This brings my monthly total to a preposterous 72,994 words.
At this point, since the month is barely half done, you should shoot for a 100k word month, even if you have to start another novel to do it. When again are you ever going to be in striking distance of a 100k word month? This smacks of a once-in-a-lifetime possibility. And imagine the bragging rights at World Fantasy when you casually drop "Oh, I wrote a hundred thousand words this month" into conversation with those hot genre girls.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
ReplyDeleteAt least you could bang out the comics pages to bring up the averages and put the Editors at bay for a few weeks.