TL;DR: The writing continues.
I’d love to write more blog posts, but these days its been head down, fingers on keyboard. Well, not quite – I’ve also been re-engaging my stamp collection. What, months before a cross country move isn’t a good time for that? It’s ok, I have it all justified – working on the collection now means I’m consolidating for the move.
But, I promised to check in and report my progress, so here we are. I’m continuing to average about 969.15 words a day this month so far – not quite 1k a day, but close. Really, that’s about an even number of days under 900 words as over 1k, but the progress meter in scrivener is happy, so I am too. The novel currently stands at 52,000 words, and I still have to write today (but instead, here I am blogging)
I’m still targeting the 70-75k mark for this novel. Math wizards will figure out 1k a day should have me finishing about mid March, and that was intentional.
I didn’t outline this novel – not exactly. I had a firm idea of how to kick everything off, and noted directions as I went so that I had a living outline a few chapters ahead, but mostly I’ve been winging it. What’s nice is that in my head, I still have a clear picture of where this is all going, and so far everything seems to be coming together nicely. There’s still a few surprises, both for me and the story, but I find that exciting.
If only it weren’t so cold outside.