Archive for July, 2007



Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Seventy Days of Sweat – Update 5

As of today:

Total New Words: 27,547
Average Per Day: 1,620

Things got better after the cat trauma week. He’s okay, though he’s locked in the bathroom and keeps telling me how BORED he is.

I made my goal and got my average up over 1500 words (both these numbers are over the span of the challenge). I also finished Texas Tea, so now I’ll be moving on to the next project – as soon as I figure out what that is.

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
Seventy Days of Sweat – Update 4

As of today:

Total new words: 16,677
Average per day: 1,191

This week sucked. I had a cat in the hospital all week and several days I was too distracted and too exhausted to move

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Seventy Days of Sweat – Update 3

As of today, I’m now at:

Total New Words: 13,817
Average Per Day: 1,382

My aha moment is that I managed to write, even worried over my sick cat, once I set myself down to do so. The words came, not perfect and not in final form, but they DID come.

Still not at my 1500 words per day goal, but I have been writing every day.

Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Seventy Days Of Sweat – Update 2

As of today, I’m at:

Total New Words: 10,060
Average Per Day: 1,437

Still a tiny bit short of my goal of 1500 new words per day but up from my prior report of 1,042. Maybe I can up it some more.

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Seventy Days Of Sweat – Update 1

As of today, I’m at:

Total New Words: 3,125
Average Per Day: 1,042

Not as fast as I want – I’m trying for 1500 per day – but I’m an “edit as I go” person so I have to do at least prelminary edits on the prior day’s work before I can write more. It also helps me remember where I am in the story.