You can tell I'm not doing much besides sitting at my computer. This is the third blog all night! But, I'm sworn-off Tumblr until tomorrow to increase productivity, and this is more productive than that.
I haven't said it officially, but I've implied it.
I finished this draft!
I've got quite the word count: 100,153.
Granted, it's 30K less than the draft before it because I've split it. I split it slightly more than halfway through, but with all the things I was adding for development, my word count jumped a ton. I'm expecting to do a lot more expanding in the second half to make it a comparable length to this half.
The word count is not set in stone, it will mesh and meld around 100K as my first-readers get back to me with their feedback. I've sent it out to 7 people. (Well, 5 in addition to the 2 that were already reading it.) Anyway... yeah...
I remember talking to one of my first-readers last week or so and he asked me how long it was. I gave him the word count and he looked at me, very impressed that I could write so much. Particularly in so little time. Basically 100K words in 2 months. Though, 80K of that was in November and 20K of that was in December.
TECHNICALLY, the last 300 words were written in January, but it was on the 1st, so I can still kinda lump it into the two-month timeframe.
To me, it was hardly anything... this is what I do... this is what I'm getting my degree for... even though you don't need a Creative Writing degree to be a writer. You don't need one to get published. I just... don't know what I'd do with my life if I wasn't writing.
And... aside from that, I've forgotten the original reason why I started posting. So, bye for now!
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