Ten days. I've worked on this book for ten days straight. Which is all Huzzah and Hurray for me. I wrote every day but one and that day I deleted part of a scene that was bothering me.
In those ten days, I added 12143 words. (12693 written, 550 deleted.) Last night was my best night with 1928 words laid down. And with those words, I rolled the book to over 20K words.
Right now, this morning - having gotten out of bed at roughly 3:30 again - I'm not sure if anything I wrote last night is any good. And right now, I don't care. If I still don't like it after I write THE END, I'll fix it in edits. The point right now is to get the story out. Blast through it all like blowing a hole through a mountain. I'll clean up the rubble once I can walk out the other side.
I had a bunch of thoughts about the book as I lay not sleeping. Some of them are still there this morning and I wrote those down. I think I know who did it. And why. Now to get from here to there in another roughly 30K words.
I need a shower today. And a boatload more coffee.
Yay! You go, you writer you! The snippets I've read have been awesome fun. And I know how happy you are when you are fully caffeinated and writing, even with lack of sleep. Keep going! I'm cheering you on from the sidelines!
ReplyDeleteYay for Duke! I'm happy you're enjoying the story!
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