March Mini-Marathon–Week 1 Results
I know I’ve mentioned here over the past few weeks that I’ve gotten way behind where I should be on A Case for Love if I’m going to have my first draft finished by April 15, as originally planned. So I’ve designated March as a mini-marathon writing month. What does that mean? Well, it means that I’ll be setting aside a greater percentage of my time, especially on the weekends, to devote to writing. I won’t be worrying about editing, research, structure, or the “rules” as I write, but just getting the story onto the page. After all, that’s what the revision process is for.
So on Mondays this month, I’ll be posting my word-count progress for the previous week to keep myself accountable, but also to hopefully encourage y’all to participate and challenge yourselves to write more during March.
Week of March 2–8: 6,426 words written.
Which, if I were still on my 1,000 words/day schedule wouldn’t be too bad. However, because I let myself lag behind, I now need to be producing about 12,000+ words per week instead of just 7,000.
This week will be interesting to try to get that done. I have a ton of freelance projects that all have to go back to their respective “owners” this week, as well as the galley of Ransome’s Honor to proofread. So, as soon as I finish posting this, I’m going to go grab some lunch and then take one of the freelance projects to either Starbucks or B&N—I haven’t decided yet—to work on it there to get away from all the distractions here at home.
So, what are you working on? Want to participate in posting your word count this month?
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I’m with you, Kaye. I’m prepping the first chapter of my wip for entry in the Geensis contest. but, I’m trying to keep moving forward on the story too. I’d like to get a lot of writing done in March. No set wordcount per day, because the bulk of my writing will be on the weekends but, maybe I can come up with a weekly goal.
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Let’s see. I started last week with . . . 70k, I think, and finished with just under 76k. Considering my goal is only 1200 words a day and I don’t write on Sundays (and only wrote a few hundred words Sat), I’m not too displeased. I was way ahead on my word count for the week before, too, and I was just hoping to make it to 75k at the very least, so I’m pretty happy with my progress. I plan to be done by the 17th; we’ll see how it goes!
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If you edit–that is, take out paragraphs, etc.–do you feel the need to make up the lost word count in order to hit your quota?
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Jess–
That’s why I try not to edit while I’m writing the first draft. That way I don’t feel like I either have to stop forward progress, go back, and rewrite the scene (or add more words to make up for it) or have to make up for the word loss somewhere else.
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Well, I took a break while my in-laws were here for the past week, but they left this morning.
Although, i’m also realizing that I’m at times focusing TOO much on my writing and my family is getting ignored, which isn’t acceptable. I’m really aiming to find my balance this month, to really get a lot of my writing done but to balance it and give my family the priority status they need as well.
That said, so far this month I’ve only written 1000 words, BUT, I did get one of three of my genesis entries sent, so that’s yeah! I’m going to try to work on one at a time, then send, then work on the next. I was trying to get them all sent at the same time, and I was getting confused. Ha! So, today and tomorrow it is book 2 time! Wish me luck!
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