The Four Day Challenge

I seem to be in competition with myself. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing actually. When I compete with myself I find that I do better--make much better progress than I normally do. Not so sure I'm going to live up to my own standards here, honestly. In four days I managed to reach 10k words, and that was on Friday. Technically tomorrow is the next fourth day, and I have not yet reached 20k. I'm about 5k behind. Which means I need to get 5k written tomorrow. A daunting task. Well, I could say Sunday was my off day and count WEDNESDAY as my fourth day, meaning I have to get 2,500 words in 1 day. Much more doable. So Thats what we shall do.

I don't necessarily feel bad when I don't get a certain number of words done on the manuscript, because even when my word progression isn't a high number I'm still working, be it brainstorming, transcribing (and thus adding more words; the word count I'm listing only shows the rough draft version of Shadow Lands; the transcription (first draft, see last post) is just under 1000k ahead of where I am at that same point in the rough draft (confusing, I know; you don't have to understand). I still like to meet my own challenges. I think of it like trying to match your own high score in a game or something. Below you will find a word count that shows where I'm at so far.  Might be more later on; I'm at a section (chapter) that I'm excited about. However, am exhausted (bad sleeping patterns combined with class--yes, I do have a life) and am starting to develop a headache (possibly from the incredible amount of writing I've been doing). They might go up, they might not.

In the near future I'm going to begin character introductions on here, so you can get to know the characters you'll hopefully be following in Shadow Lands when you hold the book in your hands. But for now, a bit of rest.


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