I ended up with a total of 9,818 words, written over four days for my first week of upping my goals. That's 182 words away from my new weekly goal of 10,000 words, and I accomplished this writing over just four days instead of five.
Can't say I'm disappointed with it.
If I can keep going like this until I leave for my trip to Toronto, April 3, I will have written a novel in three months! I want to reach this goal. It would be absolutely stupendous if I reach this goal. I'm hopeful I can get there but I don't want to say I will for sure.
For one this is because it was a lot harder for me to write 10,000 words this week then my ROW80 average of about 6,000 words/week. The second reason is we've got visitors coming, two sets — arriving Wednesday and leaving Sunday, so this will make reaching word count a little more difficult with only three weeks and a few days left to reach my goal.
But what I promise myself is that, to the very best of my ability, I am going to work towards my 2,000 words per day, five days a week goal. I'm going to treat each day as a new day and each day I'm just going to do what I can to get to where I want to go. If it happens, awesome. If it doesn't, I'm going to try not to be too hard on myself and the next day I'm going to try again.
Last week I ended up doing no writing on Tuesday and so added to my word count goals for the rest of the week. This works, but as I've learned it makes each writing day a little harder. If I have to do this I will, but again it's not ideal.
Still if I am able to accomplish this goal and finish this novel by April 2, that will be such a HUGE accomplishment for me. I've written two novels before this one, the first took me a year. The second took me, well, let's just say YEARS. Granted I was working longer hours then (and not on a freelance basis), but still, if I do this it will be such an awesome improvement.
And even if I only almost make it there it will still be a huge improvement. But I can taste the end of this frist draft and boy do I want to devour the whole thing!!!
Good luck all you fellow ROW80ers this week! Happy writing.
Can't say I'm disappointed with it.
If I can keep going like this until I leave for my trip to Toronto, April 3, I will have written a novel in three months! I want to reach this goal. It would be absolutely stupendous if I reach this goal. I'm hopeful I can get there but I don't want to say I will for sure.
For one this is because it was a lot harder for me to write 10,000 words this week then my ROW80 average of about 6,000 words/week. The second reason is we've got visitors coming, two sets — arriving Wednesday and leaving Sunday, so this will make reaching word count a little more difficult with only three weeks and a few days left to reach my goal.
But what I promise myself is that, to the very best of my ability, I am going to work towards my 2,000 words per day, five days a week goal. I'm going to treat each day as a new day and each day I'm just going to do what I can to get to where I want to go. If it happens, awesome. If it doesn't, I'm going to try not to be too hard on myself and the next day I'm going to try again.
Last week I ended up doing no writing on Tuesday and so added to my word count goals for the rest of the week. This works, but as I've learned it makes each writing day a little harder. If I have to do this I will, but again it's not ideal.
Still if I am able to accomplish this goal and finish this novel by April 2, that will be such a HUGE accomplishment for me. I've written two novels before this one, the first took me a year. The second took me, well, let's just say YEARS. Granted I was working longer hours then (and not on a freelance basis), but still, if I do this it will be such an awesome improvement.
And even if I only almost make it there it will still be a huge improvement. But I can taste the end of this frist draft and boy do I want to devour the whole thing!!!
Good luck all you fellow ROW80ers this week! Happy writing.
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