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two hourlong sessions: 1765 and 1875.

So here’s what I learned:

I cannot cannot cannot outline. I outlined the last nine steps of the book and then couldn’t write them, because they were wrong. I just worried that continuing to write without a plan would make the book a bit like the never-ending plays I’d make my family endure when I was eight.

So I sat down today with a couple of questions and just jumped in where I’d left off, and tried to see where it’d take me.

I am liking where it is taking me–and I also think it’ll give me a far more satisfactory path to the ending.

Now, let’s just see if I can do another 1700 words this afternoon.

That’s just sad.

And funny.

So I made the mistake of doing the word counter last night after I was done. It ate almost a thousand words. So it looks like I really have my work cut out for me–Can’t do anything Tuesday, so that’s over 10K words by Sunday.

Made an outline of the remaining scenes today. If I write through those, I should hit it–except I’m missing two of them.

Good times. It’ll get there. Let’s see what tomorrow and Friday bring.

Barely squeaked in my words due to time constraints, but man was that fun to write!

It appears that week four is kicking in finally. I really hope so. Still 2150 words down. Closer, but not quite caught up yet.

Well, ostensibly week two is the hardest but I’ve been having the most trouble with week three. Partly because I’ve just been busy (and other RL things) but in part i’ve had trouble with the writing–i keep thinking i need to do research, etc–and although I have a sense of the ending I can’t quite figure out how to get there from here.

Still I’ve had a lot of interesting and surprising (to me!) developments in the story, and if I’m not making up large amounts of lost time, I’ve stopped losing ground and I’m adding a little bit every day….

I think is the third or fourth time I’ve written 1764 words in a day.

Weird.

Barely squeaked in my words today.

But I did.

My first day off, yesterday. But today flowed well. Could have kept writing even if I had more time, but I want to save the setup for tomorrow.

Set pieces seem to flow. It’s good. I’d had a vague idea of where i wanted the story to go around 5k words, but i had no idea how it’d make it, but the connections are still happening.

This week is crazy busy; let’s hope I can make my daily counts. If I can come close, I should be able to get ahead slightly this weekend.

Still a bit rocky, but it’s going….

This is… actually happening. I have a story! I have a story!

True, I’m realizing the order and pacing is a mess but hey! it’s a rough rough draft anyway.

I have a story! I have a story!!

Last night was another short night — Ruth’s birthday.

I’m not sure if I”m really 40% through my story but we shall see!