New Year Novel Writing Update
| Date | Words written | Current Word Count |
|---|---|---|
| < Oct 28 | 9,435 | 9,435 |
| Oct 28 | 2,719 | 12,154 |
| Oct 31 | 324 | 12,478 |
| Nov 1 | 2,684 | 15,162 |
| Nov 2 | 1,819 | 16,981 |
| Nov 3 | 1,093 | 18,074 |
| Nov 4 | 1,635 | 19,709 |
| Nov 5 | 1,777 | 21,486 |
| Nov 6 | 2,564 | 24,053 |
| Nov 7 | 2,324 | 26,357 |
| Nov 8 | 1,733 | 28,090 |
| Dec 25 | 300 | 28,503 |
| Dec 26 | 329 | 28,832 |
| Dec 27 | 2,014 | 30,846 |
| Dec 28 | 1,228 | 32,074 |
| Dec 29 | 219 | 32,293 |
| Dec 30 | 2,481 | 34,774 |
| Dec 31 | 2,976 | 37,750 |
| Jan 1 | 4,151 | 41,901 |
| Jan 2 | 2,331 | 44,232 |
Happy New Year! And oh happy day when progress is made.
Okay, several days, not just one day. And major progress. No, really, MAJOR progress. I’ve written nearly 12,000 words in the last 4 days alone, and January 2nd isn’t over yet. I can’t believe I’m nearly at the halfway mark.
When I stopped writing in November, I was in the middle of slogging through Chapter 8 and felt like I was never going to complete that section of the novel. I knew I would, of course. It’s just that Chapters 7 through 9 were so very difficult to write. But Chapters 10 and 11 have been such a wonderful reward.
There were filled with scenes I’d been looking forward to writing for quite a while, and they were also scenes that had played in my head multiple times. So, when it came time to write them, I was screaming through, just burning up the keyboard.
It’s so much fun when I get a chance to write scenes like that, too, because, though those scenes had played in my head quite a few times, they were still morphing and changing. That means writing them ended up being a mix of knowing what was going to happen at the high level (every scene has certain goals), but finding out the details of how it was all going to go down as I wrote - and I just love that.
The only drawback is that I wish I could say more. I so badly want to tell you all about it. At the same time, It’s also getting to the part in the process where I start to get very nervous. This happened last time as well. Once I’m this far in, I start to worry about whether the novel is any good or not and, the more I write, the more the prospect of it sucking becomes truly terrifying. So, I’m desperately waiting for my husband to read what I have so far - he’s my first set of eyes on it - to let me know if it sucks or if it’s decent. Fingers crossed he gets to it soon and, hopefully, I find out it doesn’t suck. Not sucking would be really good.
