Hi! Remember me? Yeah, I know its been a while. Okay, okay, a long while. I promise I've been productive while I was gone. I wrote two short stories (both of which are not out on submission) and started my novel. I am planning on being super productive this month, NaNoWriMo style. For those of you who don't know, NaNoWriMo is an event that takes place in November that challenges writers to complete 50,000 words of their novel over the course of a month. I have participated twice, but never won (for a variety of reasons). November is a terrible month for me, so I am doing this in March.
I'm expecting my YA novel to finish at about 45,000 words, and I am going to have a rough draft complete by March 31. I figured I need to write around 10,000 words a week to make this happen, so my goal right now is to get 1,500 words a day done. So far I have been very good about this (yes, I know it is only the second day of the month). I have completed a little over 3,000 words in the last couple days and haven't gotten stuck yet (knock on wood).
The real question is how I'm going to motivate myself to keep going. I have a couple of plans in place:
1. Lots of coffee and chocolate. In my mind, this is the key to any great life success.
2. I made a graphic that I hung up over my desk demonstrating my progress. I get to move the little sticker along as I get more words done. Yes, this is incredibly dorky, but looking at it reminds me how far I left to go (and how far I've come).
3. I plan to update my blog more often with my word count. Maybe you can give me a kick in the butt if I fail to make my weekly word counts.
I'm off to see if I can crank out another hundred words or so before I have to report to class.
Happy writing!
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