Is this really going to happen?

Last night, I wrote another 3200 words... I'm now down to 10,000 words left to write. Holy. Shit. What's more, I woke up at 5 am this morning and completely planned out the rest of the book. I'm so god damned excited, I can't help it.

Then editing the telamon, and biggity bam, we're up to doing some new books stuff halfway through april! OOH YEAH!

How did I pull this shit off!

What the shit happened?!?!!

Holy CRAP. Last night something got into me. I wrote 6500 words. All of a sudden, I am apparently back on track.

13000 words left. I'm giving myself till Friday to finish it, but this is a feat man. A FEAT.

Got a new puppy.

So yeah. Didn't write as much as I wanted. I still have 19K left to write and its Monday. It ain't looking so good!

Finally some forward momentum...

Its down to the wire. Bottom of the ninth and all those lame sports analogies. I have five days and 26,000 words to write...

Its doable, but damn its gonna be a BITCH. I should really try and get 4,000 tonight. Gonna need 6,000 tomorrow and 6,000 on Sunday in order to have ANY chance at finishing this thing by Wednesday. Then I think I should just get unrepentantly drunk next Thursday!

One step forward, two steps back.

I ended up throwing away a lot of what I wrote Sunday. It was just going in the wrong direction. Im behind where I was before now, so that sucks...

Its going to be tough.

Past the halfway mark now.

I've got around 35,000 words. Not bad, but not where I wanna be. I am going to have to break my fricking balls to finish this bastard...

We'll see how it goes...

Ok. That was a weird night. St Patty's day

After half a bottle of Tullamore Dew and some serious keyboard punishment, I wrote 5000 words last night.

Is any of it good?

I have no fucking idea. The parts I remember were.

Sigh.

At least the count is at 28000 now.

Too much time off...

After last week, I went days and DAYS without writing, in prep for visiting guests. Then I didn't do shit over the weekend. I'm so fricking behind...

I wrote about 3850 words last night, so thats good. Its going to take that kind of writing to finish by April 1.... Still the goal.

Then finish the next book by June 1, and start submitting on that date as well.

Up to around 23000 words now. almost a hundred pages.

Still got 42000/14 = 3000 words a night. Holy crap. 3000 a NIGHT. Gonna take some marathon shit to pull this off.

Holy crap

I wrote like 4300 words last night. What on earth happened? I just started writing, and POW, the shit was flowing like a broken sewer main!

So I think I'm on chapter ... 11 or 12? Not really sure. Either way, I'm at nearly 18000 words. Holy ish~ 26 days left. Somehow I still need to write 1800 words a day, but that hasn't seemed to be a problem lately.

Not bad!

Day 9. I've changed up the idea.

My goal when I started this experiment was simply to write every day. I set out originally to just write one chapter a night.

The problem presented here is that some chapters simply aren't as long as others. One night I'd write 750 words, the next, 1800.

Instead I've decided to dedicate a certain amount of time to the writing. Last night, in order to catch up a bit, I wrote for 1:15. I also put down 3200 words, so... That's good.

From now on, I just wanna dedicate one solid hour a night to the writing. If I'm at a good stopping point with 5 minutes left, I'll stop. If I'm in the middle of a chapter at an hour, I'll keep going.

At this point I'm up to 13500 words. That's an average of 1500 per night. Not bad, but not the 1750 I need to finish by April 1st. Hopefully with the new "hour a night" schedule, it'll get better.

We'll see how tonight goes!

Story Idea

Idea about a haunted BattleCruiser. When a worker is smashed within the walls of a battlecruiser as it is being finally constructed, his brother, a captain in the Navy demands to command the ship.

As time goes on, the captain becomes more and more unhinged as he believes his dead brother to be communicating with him. Through his eventual slide into madness, he escalates a tense situation with a Russian cruiser, by firing on it without provocation.

Now facing an international incident, he retreats further into his psychosis as he begins to believe the US government is using him as a tool to draw the country into another world war.

Think Ghost ship meets Below meets Hunt for Red October.

Possible twist, the story's being told by the brother?

Heh! Day... What day is this?

I'm kind of off the whole day kick. Its more about writing everyday at this point. I wrote over 1800 words last night AND got done with four character summaries. Pretty good stuff.

Oh, I hit 10500 words last night.

heh

I'll be damned. I actually DID write two chapters last night, AND did April's character sheet.

Not too shabby. Some of my chapters have been kinda short though. I'm going to have to make up more than what I'm doing in order to make april 1st. I'm at 8500 words now. So 60 or so thousand to go with 30 days. That's 2K per day. ACH!

Get writing!

Weekend is over

I wrote saturday but not sunday. I'm bad. Finished chapter 5 now. Gotta do April's sheet tonight. Plus I should really write two chapters to make up for the weekend.

I guess I can write for an hour total tonight, right?

RIGHT?

Gotta stay on schedule. DO not want that April 1 deadline to miss. Hey here's an idea. I'll name all my female characters after the month in which I'm supposed to finish the book...

LOL?

*I need to get out more.