This week was productive. I had the highest word count day of the challenge and hit over 25k total. Toward the end of this week, I was skipping around in the manuscript a bit. I try not to do this because this is how I accidentally make plot holes.
The chapter I skipped over is not a hard fix. It’s not one of the more interesting chapters. I will backtrack to that for next week.
For those that are curious about daily word count:
| Day | Word Count |
| July 8th | 2307 |
| July 9th | 1555 |
| July 10th | 1550 |
| July 11th | 3068 |
| July 12th | 1488 |
| July 13th | 2739 |
| July 14th | 1750 |
Somedays, I wasn’t as motivated as others. This said I always did the minimum word count per day. The next day if highly motivated, I stayed at it a bit longer to make up for the previous day.
On my more motivated days, I keep going till the chapter is finished. In longer chapters, I continue till I find a good stop point. Then see if I hit the minimum word count for the day and do something else. It’s worked out well this way.
During this challenge, I have developed a schedule as to when I will get my writing done. In the past, I have tried this, and it didn’t work out for long. What has been working is writing some before lunch and then finishing afterward. Will the schedule work after NaNoWriMo is done? I can not tell for sure, but I would like it to stay on the schedule as long as I can maintain it.
I’m projected to finish on July 24th. The day has moved up one with the amount of progress I have made. See you next week!
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