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February Word Count
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 10:18 amTotal new words in February: 3517
Still not on target, but an improvement over January's 2942. Also, the vast majority were done in the second half of the month; if I'd managed that rate of progress the whole time, I'd have topped the desired 5000. So definitely on the right track.
3088 of those words were on the new novel; the post-first-novel novella is rather falling by the wayside. I'm tentatively okay with that; the novella's going to require a whump of research to nail down the setting, and given the state of things in the Middle East, I'm a little leery of dropping my characters in to cause trouble for fear of inadvertently laying claim to someone's revolution. Plus, if I let those characters into my writing brain, they have a tendency to take over to the exclusion of all else.
The public-embarrassment effect looks promising: I got a substantial amount of work done yesterday because I knew I'd be reporting progress today. So brace yourselves for another of these updates in April.
Still not on target, but an improvement over January's 2942. Also, the vast majority were done in the second half of the month; if I'd managed that rate of progress the whole time, I'd have topped the desired 5000. So definitely on the right track.
3088 of those words were on the new novel; the post-first-novel novella is rather falling by the wayside. I'm tentatively okay with that; the novella's going to require a whump of research to nail down the setting, and given the state of things in the Middle East, I'm a little leery of dropping my characters in to cause trouble for fear of inadvertently laying claim to someone's revolution. Plus, if I let those characters into my writing brain, they have a tendency to take over to the exclusion of all else.
The public-embarrassment effect looks promising: I got a substantial amount of work done yesterday because I knew I'd be reporting progress today. So brace yourselves for another of these updates in April.
