Well my Twelve Days of Christmas challenge floundered right around Christmas Eve. The bottles of plonk sitting under the stairs, and the obscene amount of food that we buy every year and then wonder why, lured me away from the laptop.
Still for a novel that I began in July of last year, and which had only reached 17,000 words by December, I found that the fact that I'd laid the gauntlet down to myself spurred me that much further on. I managed 15,307 words in total over 5 days which is almost as much as I'd done in 6 months!
I've been trying to get back into the swing of things again in the last few days, and I'm slowly climbing in terms of wordcount, with a total of 7,717 words in 3 days. And though we are now still officially within the 12 days of Christmas, I'm setting myself a new goal - to finish the first draft of The Curse by 10th January 2012. My wip currently stands at 40k words, and I imagine I need to get though another 40-45k in the next 9 days, averaging at 5k per day. I think it's acheivable as I've proved to myself that I can write 5k in one sitting now, but I need to adopt the same fast writing priniciples from my pre-Christmas glories.
So a new year brings with it a fresh start, and this wip has been hanging around my neck for too long. I want to get it done, and then start to plan the rest of the Delve series. After all, I may have wanted a break from Delve but I now feel the urge to go back to it, and with a new and fresh perspective as well as agent interest, the timing feels right.
Here we go - Day 1 of 9 begins. Wish me luck.
Lorraine x
Lorraine, you have been such an inspiration to me - you and that blogpost you mentioned together have spurred me on to up my daily targets massively.
ReplyDeleteAnd it does work! So thanks for having the courage to post your intentions on here, and the honesty to say that you didn't quite manage it. After all, that's the writing life.
Good on you, I say, and good luck for the next 9 days!
Having typed 1700 words into Scrivener this morning I'd earned a little excursion in the Blogosphere. But 7717 in 3 days? Wow! Well done! 40-45k in 9 days sounds crazy so I'd love to hear how you get on. Hope you did it :)
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