October writing progress

Posted by on November 1, 2013

So this month I’ve been working on a political/terrorism thriller novel.  I’m finally getting towards the home stretch on it, but it’s definitely been more challenging to write than I had anticipated that it would be.  I’m not entirely sure why, but I’ve had a lot more “stuck” moments on this book than I did on Awakening from the Shadows, even though I pretty much know where I’m going as far as the overall plot and specific scenes.  Really the only thing to do when that happens is to just keep on writing, putting one sentence in front of the next, and eventually you make progress and you get there.  October also turned out to be an extremely busy month at work, so that also meant less time for writing than I was originally anticipating.  So for the month of October I ended up with:

October, 2013:  13,884 words

Still forward progress, even if it was less than I was originally hoping for.  Now we’re into November, which is NaNoWriMo (or National Novel Writing Month)–a month-long challenge to write a 50,000 word novel.  I’m not exactly going to do the standard NaNoWriMo challenge, but I’m still going after it in spirit.  Looking back over my monthly totals, the most I’ve written in a month so far this year was in April, when I hit 48,015 words.  So my plan for this month is to top that.  I’m aiming for 50,000 words, spread across finishing Shattered (the thriller novel) and starting up The Emerald Veil (book 2 in the Mirynthir Chronicles).  If I’m able to hit that goal, it will make me a happy (and probably tired) writer.  We’ll see how it goes . . . wish me luck!

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