Day Twenty-eight - 53,262 words and counting

This month, I'm writing a novel. All my progress can be found on my private blog. The commentary for each day's work can be found below.

Hot diggity damn. I did it.

If you'd asked me six months ago if I was capable of this, I'd have said there was no way. And I'd have been right--six months ago, I wouldn't have been. For that matter, six weeks ago I don't think I had the gumption and wherewithal to make this kind of commitment. I'm not quite sure what happened during the last few days of September to get me excited about this project, but whatever it was, it hasn't left me yet.

Specifically, today marks the day that I have achieved my goal of 52,347 words of writing in a month's time. But that doesn't mean I'm going to stop.

Next month, I'm going to do it all over again, this time a set 1,689 words a day. Since there are only thirty days in September, my goal is the more modest 50,670 words for November.

What about the last three days of this month? I'm going to keep going, obviously! 1,689 words a day, if not more. And I'm going to keep going at that pace, if I can, until the thing is done. However long that takes.

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So, about today's section of writing. We left Bryony after she had just finished an unexpected quarrel with Zeoly. (Unexpected to me, at any rate.) I decided to go with it because I hadn't planned for it to happen anywhere else, and it needed to happen around this point in the story.

Would she still leave? I think so, because the pass was only good for one day, and she needed to see Elma. But it casts a pall over the day, and her trip won't be quite so lighthearted as I had planned. Still, it justifies something else that happens when she gets back from her trip in a way I hadn't expected, so I think it all worked out well.

Speaking of which, I had originally planned at least another chapter, but now I think it all might come together within this one. It'll be a long chapter, though... and it continues tomorrow.

Today's Total: 1,807 / 1,689 words (107.0%)
Progress to Date: 53,262 / 47,281 words (112.6%, 3.5 days ahead)
Total Progress: 53,262 / 52,347 words (101.7%)
Est. Completion: 53,262 / 250,000 words (21.3%, 116 days to go)