If you've been following my blog over the past few weeks, you might have picked up on the fact that I've been scribbling away trying to write a first draft for my novel by the 19th June...and I know the question you're all wondering now is - did I do it??
And the answer is....no.
I didn't manage to complete my novel, but am I disappointed? Hell, no!
In all my other WIPs, the most I've ever managed to write is around 17,000 words - the word count for my current novel is over 40,000. To me, that's a tremendous achievement. I've never stuck at one project for so long, or remained so excited about a WIP for so long either. I still find myself constantly dreaming up scenes while I'm trying to get to sleep, or while I'm out and about, and I simply have to scribble it down. I keep imagining that moment when I've finished it completely, and how excited I'll be when I can finally share it with the world....
Although ideally I would have liked to have reached around 50,000 words, I'm not going to dwell on the fact that it's a little short of that (ha! If 10,000 words can be called 'short'). All I can do now is keep going and hope that I don't run out of steam - it would be a shame if all this effort went to waste!
So, I'm setting myself a new deadline. Hopefully my writing time won't be interrupted by sudden illnesses (stupid stomach bugs...) or holidays (to be honest, I knew I was going away but I thought I could work around it...turns out holidays aren't the most productive writing time for me) or little things such as graduation (happening TODAY at 6pm - eek!!). I am determined to finish this book to prove to myself that I CAN do it!
So here's my new deadline: 1st July 2012
That gives me a little over a week to finish this draft - and after that, I have all the fun of editing it - hooray!
I can't wait to see if I actually manage to do it. Even if I end up putting the deadline back AGAIN, I think I've learned something over the past few weeks - I'm definitely someone who needs a deadline to work to!!
Happy writing, everyone!
xx
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So it's July 7th now. Did you finish your new WIP?
ReplyDeleteI was supposed to finish revisions by the end of June. I failed. My new deadline is Sept. No matter how bad I screw up, I think I can make that deadline. :-)
I have a confession to make....I may have, er, not stuck to my deadline...at all. Over the past few weeks, I've been in an unbelievably apathetic mood, and it's only now that I'm finally starting to even think about getting back into it again! September sounds like a really good idea to me!! I think that's definitely do-able :) - let me know how you get on!
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