Writing progress, August 20th

Today’s progress:

Project: White Raven draft two

New words: 2,880

Total words: 51,064

Goal: 100k

Writing:

Look at that – over 50k!.

My end word count for this draft is very much a guess right now.  I’m definitely somewhere in the middle of the story, just not sure how much more of it there is to go.  Somewhere around the 90-100k mark, though I think.

Still feeling generally pretty happy with this draft.  I’m trying to do some vague outlining of the last half of the book, but it’s very, very vague right now.  I have my very last scene in my head, just need to figure out what needs to happen to get there.  Which you can interpret very much as reading: yes, I am going to probably ditch vast chunks of the first draft from here on in.

Real life:

Grocery shopping.  Walk already accomplished today, which felt like I was dragging myself through molasses.  I’ve had some really high energy days this week and have probably pushed myself a little bit too much, so it’s probably to be expected, pretty much.  Especially since I slept badly last night, too.

It’s been raining almost solidly all afternoon, making me very glad that I walked this morning and didn’t have to try to time it this afternoon.  Unfortunately, I think tomorrow’s weather will be similar, so I don’t know if I’m going to be able to walk without getting drenched.  Oh well, there are worse things.

Beauty:

Look, a new category!  I’ve seen a few other writers who take note of daily things of beauty, and liked the idea.

Today: walking through the stormy morning, the sky heavy with unshed rain, the wind in my hair.  The world scrubbed clean, fertile and green.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.