That’s taken me past 580k and I’ve hit nearly 16.5k words in
the last three days and I’m speeding up not slowing down. This word rate is
going to put me over the finishing line some time on Wednesday, if not Tuesday,
which is awesome from my point of view.
I’ve already picked out my NANO project and I’m going to
literally use that as a stretch down project, and consciously control my
writing to keep it below the rate I’ve been hitting. The one thing I’m not
going to do is go cold turkey on writing. I’ll ease down to 3k, and then around
2k a day to complete the NANO project, spend early December finishing off this
manuscript (which will probably have about 10-15k to go at that point, maybe a
little more), and then start parcelling everything up and setting up a self-editing
schedule.
Anyway, that’s the plan, and including the NANO project I’ll
have 17 completed first drafts to attack for editing purposes. Two of them have
major plot holes, and two have stories that bent so far away from the original
idea as I wrote them that I’m not sure they’ll be salvageable. The others will
be okay – provided I spend 2014 editing and not get tempted into trying to
better this year’s score. Which might happen – after all I’ve got another 14
started manuscripts from this year, and about a dozen from before then that are
worth pursuing – that’s not counting any new ideas or continuations that come out during the whole
process. I’m not known as the sequel king for nothing. LOL
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