Passed 40K for the Month!

Which means I should be able to win JulNoWriMo sometime this week when I hit 50K. Yay! :)

I'm working on the big climax of the book. I'm thinking it's highly likely that I will have to make this Part IV. I'm thinking I'll be done with Part IV in the next 10K-20K words.

I'm not done with the story, though. I skipped some parts, so I'll have to go back and write them or give them more depth. I'm sure there's plenty that will have to be rewritten as well.

I was originally aiming for 100K total, because I heard most publishers are looking for 75-90K for a novel. But now I see that I work best by getting the story done first, and then going back and embellishing it more and adding more description. So I might finish my rough draft way short of 100K, but will probably get closer into the 75-90K range after editing.

Writing is going fairly well. I don't encounter too many writer's blocks. So far, when I come up to a part of the plot that I'm a bit fuzzy on, it just comes out. If I try to plan some parts ahead of time, I can't think of what should happen.

But now, I'm coming up to an important climax. I got most of it figured out, but then there will be a big confrontation at the end. I have no clue how that is going to work. I know what I want the outcome to be, but am not sure how to get to that outcome. I'm hoping it just comes out when I get that far sometime this week. I'm not sure how I'll end the story if I can't get that to work out!

So, total word count is 68,666 and it is 236 pages. I wrote 40,862 of those words in July so far.

50K BABY!!

That's TOTAL word count, not just in July for JulNoWriMo. But still! 50K! Woot! :)

The actual total word count is 50,055. 22,251 of that was written in July alone so far. Total page count is 168.

Quick Word Count Post

It's late and I'm tired, so this is pretty much only going to be an update on the word count. I was able to type over 5K today. Impressive considering it was the 4th of July and I went to the fireworks. ;)

Total word count is now 45,223. Almost 50K! 17,420 of that has been done since July 1st, for JulNoWriMo. It's 152 pages. I will probably be starting Part III tomorrow. :)

The First Official Day of JulNoWriMo is Over!

And I have netted 5,295 words in that 24 hr period. Wow! The best part, is the flowed right out of me. Easy peasy. ;)

I just finished Chapter 14. I'm not quite sure what Chapter 15 will be. I'm hoping it comes to me tomorrow.

Word count is now 33,098 (whew, right?) and it's 109 pages.

JulNoWriMo has started!

I'm fairly tired, so this will be a quick post.

I typed up 1,917 words of my ending tonight as part of a JulNoWriMo challenge. I'm hoping to get more writing done tomorrow too before midnight. Goal is to write 5K in the 24 hour period. :) I'm hoping to finish Chapter 11 then.

Total word count is 29,720 and it's 97 pages long.

Losing a bit of steam...

I'm hoping it's just temporary. I didn't write at all yesterday. I was first busy for most of the day, and when the evening rolled around I had a nasty headache. It was just too hard to be creative when feeling like that. :( Today, I was also busy and started to not feel good again. I did get some research done, and did a bit of writing tonight. Not a whole lot, though.

The kids are going camping this weekend with my parents, so I'm hoping, with some alone time, I can get a huge start in JulNoWriMo. I also have plenty to do around the house too, though. We'll see how it all goes.

JulNoWriMo starts Friday. Funny - a few days ago I was worried I would get over 50K before July even started. Now, I'm still hovering around 25K (25,123 to be exact). But if I can write with that speed in July, I should be able to win JulNoWriMo since the majority of that word count was done in under two weeks.

Now, to bed. ;)

ETA: So, as I was lying in bed, I got another idea that I had to write down. Word count is now 25,940 and it's 83 pages. ;)

Just an update...

Not a whole lot of exciting stuff to report, but figured I would do my nightly post.

I did a little research into the "norms" of word count of first-time novels sent to publishers. After seeing that most publishers want to see slightly under 100,000 I have made that my new goal. 50,000 seemed too little. I'm almost halfway there already and not halfway through the story. Anything more than than and it's likely publishers won't bother looking at it. So 100,000 shall be my goal. I'll try to get 50,000 of that done during JulNoWriMo. ;)

I did split off chapter 5 like I mentioned earlier. I also did a bit of writing to try to make scenes flow better into each other, and also to flesh some things out more. I am now up to beginning chapter 8. Still thinking it will be around 30, possibly 40 chapters, roughly 1,000 to 3,000 words per chapter. If you do the math and average it out, it's about the 100,000 word ballpark I mentioned. I've read that a 100,000 word novel is probably about 300 pages in paperback form. So that does sound like a good size.

After the bit of writing I did tonight, my word count is now 21,733 and it is exactly 70 pages.

Did you say chapter FIVE?

Yup, I have very large chunks done of each chapter up to and including chapter 5! I don't know if I will end up with the around 30 chapters I first planned on (might be less, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's more!), but if I do I am getting close to being 20% done already! I probably am 20% done if you take into account that I have written plenty of scenes for other chapters that I haven't gotten to placing yet.

The kids finally did go to sleep and I was able to get some writing done tonight. I would like to continue to just type and type, but it's already past 1 am. I'll have to wait to write more tomorrow.

Just wanted to update quick as to how much I have done. Word count is 19,002, 38 pages. The goal for JulNoWriMo is to write 50,000 words during the month of July. If I'm not mostly done before then (which I highly doubt) and I do meet the goal, then it looks like I'll be adding another 50K to my word count next month. Thinking word count will top 100,000 when all is said and done. ;)