On the first day of Christmas, against a target of 1,000 words, I managed to cross the finish line at a modest 1,150 words. I sat at the kitchen table, with a bottle of Smirnoff Ice for company, and took 5 minutes to roughly plot out the structure of the next few scenes, before getting down to it.
It took me 90 minutes to churn out 1,150 words, at an average rate of 766 words per hour. A bit slower than I'd like but still the words that came out were pretty decent, and brought me to a close on Chapter 4 and into the opening scene of Chapter 5.
So day one is at a close, and I'm glad to say I haven't yet spotted a partridge in a pear tree. I had a tree in my scene, a big oak tree but no birds.
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