Making Progress
Last night, or this morning really, at 3:15 a.m., I reached the 25% mark on my WIP! I had been looking forward to that marker because it helps feel like I am accomplishing something. Like I’m actually getting the novel written.
I’m finding that I really like having the status bar over there in the ride sidebar. It’s kind of a morale booster to see the dark purple area slowly taking over the light purple. I try not to look at it as, “Look how much I have left to do!” Instead, I look at it as, “Look how much I’ve done!”
How does this match up to where I am in the story? It’s close. I’m about 25% through the story. It might turn out that I go over the 75,000 word count, just because there are several subplots that are starting to grow at this point. We’ll see. If I go over, I go over. I just don’t want it to turn into a monster Harry Potter sized novel.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with my progress. I’m really driven to work on this one. I definitely have the urge to go back and edit the beginning chapters just because I’ve gotten to know my characters a bit better and their voices have morphed a tad. But I’ll do that when I’m done. Right now, it’s time to chug along and get 25% more of it written.
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Way to go! =oD
JenWriter, isn’t that the best thing in the world? So…do you have an end point you know you will stop at, or do you do it another way? For instance, I have four very distinct sections in my book, and I know after the last section this book will end. I don’t know how the book itself will end, but after this section I know that’s it. Do you have something like that?
But seriously, congratulations on your 25% mark!
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