The Brain Dump

So today was not quite as glorious as I wanted it to be, though the day is not finished. I managed 1,893 words--and this while fending off my father and his new PS3. I'm still working away here but I thought I would give everybody an update.

I still have a normal day's writing to do before reaching this day's goal. Back to the salt mines.

OK. So I've fallen out of the blogosphere for the past week or so, but the good news is I was not completely idle. I have been writing (most) every day and clawing my way closer and closer to the 31,000 total. The bad news is I'm not nearly as close as I want to be. I can't tell you on what day I did what, but I can tell you that I have a grand total of 23,111 words.

So. That's not 31,000. But I have two more days. Two more days to write 7,889 words. 3,944.5 words a day. 328.70833333 . . . words an hour (if I only write for twelve hours). That's . . . doable . . .

OK. So. The lesson is: meeting up with old friends and spending time playing video games with my mother (that's right--my mother!) takes time. This is doable. This is totally doable. No one's putting me on the Altar of Shame!

I will post my word count tomorrow probably around the same time as tonight. Then Sunday, the 31st, I will give continuous word count updates until what I am assuming will be my Moment of Glory--as I stand triumphant above the month of August and laugh and cry and scroll through my 31,000 words.

See you tomorrow.

Well, the opening ceremonies for the Beijing Olympics has sufficiently caught my attention to stop me from writing for the day. It got harder to concentrate when my parents turned it on, but I was able to get 1,002 words, bringing the grand total to 4,464. Almost a third of what I had written up to today. That's a better start than I had on August 1st . . .

I still have some catching up to do. But I'm gaining confidence.