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I caught up on the deficit from yesterday’s word count and met my target for today, bringing the manuscript total to 4000 words. If you add the word count yield prior to 1 November, I have a manuscript that is 10K words long.
It has been rough going due to everything else which is taking place in my life. I have exams to grade, a Spanish class to stay current in an the usual sundry distractions which everyone struggles with. Chuck in fatigue and the fact that I can never find a quiet place to write and it is a small wonder I have anything to report at all.
Still, I’m pushing forward.
Tomorrow I’ll try for 2500 words. Friday’s goal is 3000 words. By next week, I hope that my daily yield is in the 4K to 5K range.
So it goes.
Respects,
Steven Francis Murphy
Author of The Limb Knitter and Tearing Down Tuesday
North Kansas City, Missouri
The Writing Front
At midnight, I punched in the first three hundred words for National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo. It seemed like a good idea to get a symbolic word count onto the scoreboard before I went to bed last night. This morning, the Woman I Love has been supportive enough to shut off the television in order to let me get some more writing in before I head to campus today.
Thus the present word count for Day One as of 0640 hours is 1100 words. The goal for the day is to reach a modest 2000 words. Hopefully I can push to a larger 5000 words if I play my cards right.
These words are for Coming to Terms, a Tearing Down Tuesday sequel set twenty years later. I’ve already got 6000 words down prior to this morning for the project. So I’ll be keeping two word count tallies over the next thirty days.
The first will be an actual project word count signifying overall work. The second will be the NaNoWriMo word count. In my mind, it seems patently dishonest to count the first six thousand words written prior to this morning.
So it goes. Now it is time for a nap.
Respects,
Steven Francis Murphy
Author of The Limb Knitter and Tearing Down Tuesday
North Kansas City, Missouri
On the First of November of this year, I will participate in National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo. The baseline goal is to write 50K words for a novel in thirty days.
I’m going to give it a stab because I can’t seem to get rolling on the writing front. Life, teaching, and the endless litany of disasters keeps getting in my way. Perhaps if I had a dedicated month where I focused on my writing, I could finally blast the rust and dust off the gears.
The current project on tap is Coming to Terms, a sequel to Tearing Down Tuesday. I’ve already got five thousand words written so far. For the record, I won’t count those words when I start on November 1st. Instead, I’ll start at zero and move from there.
It won’t be easy. I’ll be in the depths of the semester as I push forward on this. I’ve got my first semester of Spanish on deck plus four classes on the teaching front. Life, low energy levels and the like may well contrive to get in the way.
However, the greatest obstacle of all is finding a quiet place to work. The hunt is on for places where silence reigns supreme in conjunction with peak writing times. We have a faculty resource center on campus and it is quiet but there are no windows. If needs must, I’ll use that. Sometimes the Adjunct Farm at work after seven in the evening is a good place to work, perhaps the best for this semester. The Business and Tech campus would be a good place if my availability matched up with their hours but this semester that isn’t happening.
Still, I’m going to try this. On Tuesday I am going to set a goal of writing 5000 words in order to kick things off. I’ll spend Monday getting the grading cleared off the deck so that my free time on Tuesday is devoted to nothing but writing and studying for Spanish.
I figure if I can yield 10K words a week, I might be able to reach my goal. If all goes well, perhaps I can use December and January to maintain my progress and push for something which is 120K to 150K words long.
Wish me luck, folks. I’ll be posting updates as I get them.
Respects,
Steven Francis Murphy
Author of The Limb Knitter and Tearing Down Tuesday
North Kansas City, Missouri
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