Day…29? Almost done?

Hardly.  Okay, so, I’ve fallen behind in my enthusiasm a bit.  I have managed to achieve 54,744 words, which, while falling short of the goal by a few thousand words, is still nothing to sneeze at.

I’ve got 7 solid beginning chapters, a chapter (or maybe 2?) that are solid at the end, and then a bunch of… floating scenes… space junk… stuff that might not make the final cut.  I don’t expect to write 5256 words tomorrow… but I suppose I could.  Also, I didn’t know it would work out this way, but Saturday is the MWPA Conference, and then a Stonecoast party at the lovely Erin’s house… so it’s kind of a triumphant end to my writing month.

I’m not sure what I’ve learned.  Actually, I think what I’ve learned is that I’m smarter than myself.  I think this project would have worked better with a real deadline, because I knew very well that no one was going to be waiting for my 60,000 words on March 4th.  So I wrote for myself, and blogged for myself, and myself is not a very harsh critic – I’m really kind of a pushover.  I think I could be a speed writer.  I found it rather easy to do the 2000 words a day, if I could convince myself to sit down and do it.  If pressed (and I mean actually pressed) I bet I could manage 120,000 words in a month, or at least 80 or 90,ooo.

Elizabeth gave me some advice on the blogging, which I didn’t really take.  I guess I found the blog to be not very motivational as a writing tool, and I didn’t feel a strong need for readership.  I’m gad that those of you who checked it out did, and I plan to keep blogging throughout the next few months, since its nice to record my process as a log – to know what I learned chronologically.  Hopefully you fine readers are getting something out of it.