Due to me not moving out & not having internet from the 14th to about noon today (the 21st), I’m going to combine these two weeks into one post to keep my posting schedule consistent.
7 April
Target Wordcount: 3,500
Words Written: 3,011
Total Words: 72,283
Today was a pretty good writing day. I got a chapter finished (Chapter 26) and hit 72k words.
8 April
Target Wordcount: 4,000
Words Written: 4,056
Total Words: 73,328
Another good writing day. I’m all caught up now!
9 April
Target Wordcount: 4,500
Words Written: 4,056
Total Words: 73,328
I was busy enough with moving prep today that I didn’t get a chance to write at all.
10 April
Target Wordcount: 5,000
Words Written: 4,527
Total Words: 73,799
I’m behind, but I I’m only one day behind.
11 April
Target Wordcount: 5,500
Words Written: 4,905
Total Words: 74,177
I am still behind, but still writing. Today I finished chapter 27. I also got sick of how long this part of the story was taking, so I’ve decided to skip forward a few days and have the next chapter happen when interesting things are happening. The previous chapters have been full of worldbuilding and character development, but not much else. I think I need to write something different.
12 April
Target Wordcount: 6,000
Words Written: 4,968
Total Words: 74,240
Writing-wise, today was a spectacularly bad day. I think I may need to outline a little bit before I can continue writing.
13 April
Target Wordcount: 6,500
Words Written: 5,040
Total Words: 74,312
I didn’t write much today, but at least I reached 5000 words!
14 April
Target Wordcount: 7,000
Words Written: 5,040
Total Words: 74,312
On account of moving to an apartment (on the third floor!) I didn’t write anything. I was so tired that I went to bed at 8:00 PM.
15 April
Target Wordcount: 7,500
Words Written: 5,555
Total Words: 74,826
I was still tired today, but I still managed to write 515 words.
16 April
Target Wordcount: 8,000
Words Written: 6,556
Total Words: 75,827
Wrote 1001 words today.
17 April
Target Wordcount: 8,500
Words Written: 7,631
Total Words: 76,902
Wrote 1,075 words today. Getting caught up, bit by bit.
18 April
Target Wordcount: 9,000
Words Written: 8,732
Total Words: 78,001
Wrote 1,101 and hit 78,000!
19 April
Target Wordcount: 9,500
Words Written: 9,514
Total Words: 78,783
I’m all caught up and on track again! Whoo!
20 April
Target Wordcount: 10,000
Words Written: 10,028
Total Words: 79,326
This is the first day since the 8th that I’ve hit the target wordcount. Feels good!
Overview
I started out behind and ended up exactly on schedule. I was worried that moving was going to leave me too tired to write anything for the rest of the month, but it turns out I was only tired & sore for about two days. Also, I didn’t have internet for a week. And it turns out that I write a lot when I don’t have internet.
I’m also not as busy as I thought I would be. Turns out that living only three miles from work means it takes about ten minutes to get there, instead of over an hour (!!) like it did when I lived at my parents’ house. Even though I have to do all the shopping & cleaning & chores, I have a lot more free time because I’m not spending two hours driving every day.
There’s really only one more week in April, so I think I’ll post the next blog post on the 30th (Monday). Until then!
