I’m smoking hot today!!! (Not my body, but my word count LOL).
I started the day off with a final, much-needed loop on my current chapter, which fortunately added 500 additional words to the manuscript because I had to add some things in earlier chapters as a result of this looping session as well.
Then I hopped on the bike and blew through 1321 words in my first session, which is a record. If I could do that every time (cleanly of course) and I got on the bike 3 times per day, I’d net 3,963 words every day (just dictation), no problem.
But alas, I broke my record on my second session and hit 1520 words, baby! Pretty clean and no issues for the most part. I can probably beat this record, but I think my MAX speed is somewhere between 1500 and 2000 per 30 minutes, which is 3000-4000 per hour.
Anyhoo, I need to record a podcast tonight so I’m mostly done for tonight except for some looping. I may squeeze in another writing session tonight if I can.
I’m definitely on smoother roads now, which is funny because it happened right where I said it would: somewhere around the 20K mark. I’m about 2000-3000 words away from the story’s “big moment”, where everything changes forever (and for the worst) for my hero. I don’t quite know how the “event” will happen, but I know what the event IS, which is most of the battle. Beyond that, I can see probably around the next 5000-6000 words pretty clearly before things go dark again. If I’m lucky, that will get me to around 27,000-word mark, which is likely the next rough spot…around 54%. Ultimately we’ll see.
I did the math for this week. If I can hit at least 3000 words per day, I’ll add a cool 21,000 words to the manuscript, which will put me squarely around 40K. That would put me on track to either finishing the novel this week OR being days away from it (if it’s 45K or 50K for example). If I hit 3500 words per day, I’ll certainly finish it this week…which is right on time because I’m supposed to receive the first draft of the cover design by the 4th… I told you guys I needed to write like a demon LOL
Have a good night.
PROGRESS TRACKER
Words: 3,467 (1321 in session 1, 1520 in session 2 (!!), 626 by hand)
Calories: 100
Miles: 3
Time on bike: 60 min
TOTAL
Words: 19,029
Calories: 600
Miles: 18.0
Time on bike: 360 minutes (6.0 hours)
