Word count: 1,782.
Tomorrow I begin National Novel Writing Month. The goal is 50,000 words for the month. I have finished a grand total of 23,709 words thus far which means I am almost halfway to my goal going in. 50,000 is around 175 pages total and I have a feeling this story is more like 200 to 250 pages which would be around 62,000 words or so. I have around 35-40,000 more words to go.
It's hard not to edit as I go since I'm a perfectionist. No not with grammar, but I like my words to have punch, I like my prose to be poetic. In fact, my writing group laughed at my last submission as they said some of it sounded like it was in iambic pentameter. I'm a short story gal, so elongating scenes and writing boring "detail" are hard for me. I like action and things to be happening all the time, so this has been a real challenge for me. I also write my stories one line at a time and I am afraid I will reach a point where I don't know what happens. The payoff to writing one line at a time though is that things do stay fresh and exciting for me since my characters constantly surprise me.
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