Whew! It’s been a very busy month. This contest has been a real challenge, and also a lot of fun.
The month started out rough trying to find the time to write. If you don’t count revising drafts, I hadn’t written a novel since February, and now I was asking myself to go from 0 to 50,000 in 30 days. On top of that, I had other obligations seemingly every day to start the month, making it that much harder to fit in time to write.
For this story, and for this contest, I started typing on 8 1/2 by 11 pages, and reduced my font size so I would have to fit more words on the page. This definitely helped me boost my word count, but it also made it that much longer to write a single page. My average speed has nearly doubled, or halved, depending on how you want to look at it. Writing a page has gone from a half hour to practically taking an hour for me to type one page.
That being said, I’m proud that I’m in the third and final section of my new book. This portion only has 3 chapters, and I’m almost done with the first, but the second I know is going to be a beast.
Coming down to the wire, and Thanksgiving staring me in the face, we’ll see how I do.