I gave it my best shot but in the end the holiday proved to be too much for me to work around and my epic streak of writing 10,000 words a week has come to a halt. This just goes to show that if you want to get any writing done the most important thing is to alienate all your friends and family members so that when holidays roll around your calendar remains serenely empty.

At first i was pretty bummed out. I tried to squeeze writing in around traveling and celebrating but i was never able to gain any traction. Instead of coming down super hard on myself i ultimately decided to just give myself a break. As much as i would have loved to keep the streak going, it’s just one week, and no matter how well you try to plan for stuff there will always be unplanned stuff that gets in the way. If you don’t give yourself some grace when that happens it will suck all the life right out of you.

So it’s a new week. I actually have found the brief time off writing to be refreshing. Hopefully the rest of the story will breeze right onto the page.

Hopefully.

Eight weeks. 80,000 words. It’s strange in that it feels like i just started at the same time that it feels like I’ve been doing this forever.

Another week, another goal hit. time to get back on the trail.

Hit my goal again and crossed the 100,000 word mark for the current draft last week. I had been adding bits and pieces slowly before going on this writing bonanza which accounts for the first 30,000 words or so. I think I’ve pushed through the slogging middle portion and can now see the end in sight.

If all goes well it will be another 3-4 weeks and the draft will be complete. Should put the word count very close to the first book in the series which will be nice for the sake of symmetry.

Onward!

Made it six weeks in a row now. I’m solidly over the half way mark. Guessing one more month until the draft is finished if i can continue at this pace.

I’d like to be feeling the downhill momentum but it has yet to kick in. Probably another week at least before i start seeing the end.

It was a rough writing week with the holiday. Always great to see family but it puts a damper on my writing momentum. Fortunately i was able to spew out enough words to reach the mark for the fifth week in a row.

Now I’m all full of delicious food from the long weekend and primed for another week of writing.

Hope everyone had a restorative and uplifting holiday.