I finished up my internship (during which I produced more than 30 articles for the Roanoke Times), and I've returned home to Baton Rouge, but I'm only here until the 30th. Until then, I'm trying my best to make steady progress on my novel. My goal all summer was to write at least 500 words a day, though I usually hoped to get to around 700. I've missed a few days recently, but I'm still getting some work done.
Today I reached the 50,000 word mark, so that's a pretty big accomplishment, I'd say. I've never written something that long before. I've written nearly 25,000 of those words in less than two months, since around June 25. I'm not quite sure how much I have to go, but I imagine it will finish up somewhere between 60,000 and 70,000 words.
That seems short for a novel, but the first Harry Potter book has a word count of about 77,000. That should give you an idea of about how long my book will be.
Even if my book turns out to be crap, I'm pretty proud of myself for doing so much. I need to be more diligent during my time off, though! It would be great if I could finish the first draft before school starts on September 10. I need to be doing 1,000 words a day...
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Allison,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on hitting the 50,000 word mark! Three things:
1. If you ever want sometime to read it, I'm volunteering right now. I know that it may be a while before you want anyone to read it (I know my first drafts of most everything are terrible - so there's no time pressure from me on this!)
2. Would it be cool if I linked the RTPCrossword blog to yours? I mean since you're the editor of the paper, I thought that would be cool. I won't do it without permission, though.
3. Looking forward to kicking butt at both soccer and Rook!
Keep up the writing!
Neville
1. Yeah, when I'm done, I'd like to have a couple people read it and give me suggestions for revisions.
ReplyDelete2. Sounds great. Yay Phi :)
3. ME TOO!
Thanks!
That is so awesome! What genre is the book? I have always loved writing but i never could finish a thing! i have chapters of so many books written in spiral notebooks under my bed. Some are in my computer. But i just can't FINISH. it's a terrible thing!!
ReplyDeletesorry- i just saw that you already answered my genre question in another blog! ;)
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