Downhill: 35,856

Falling sick last week really knocked a hole in my word count. I have a bit over 14k left to hit the 50k mark, but I’m already into Act III of the story and maybe have 27 pages of material planned until the end. That’s roughly 5,400 words, so that would leave around 8,800 that I’d have to go back and add to and between earlier scenes. Some of that will be needed, but I may not officially “win”. Which is ok.

I am, however, pleased with the progress I’ve made this month. This was a fantastic jump start and without it I would likely still be”thinking” about this story and not have something on the page that can be worked with. Will I do it next year or if the Divas decide to do their own in a different month? I don’t know.

I look back at a couple of my earlier attempts and go “What was I thinking!?” This definitely gave me a much better perspective on the amount of planning, effort and hard work that goes into a project this large. The ones I typically read run around 400 pages. *gulp*

Anyway, wanted to post an update since I forgot on Friday and I don’t know if I’ll get much writing done in the next couple of days because of other obligations.