novel progress

I’m up to 13,000 words in my novel. That’s 1000 less than my personal daily word count goal, but still ahead of the one they recommend, so I’ve got wiggle room. Last night was a wash because I had been in Delaware all day visiting a client. We were only supposed to be there for the morning and back in the office by early afternoon, but one meeting turned into four, and we were there all day and didn’t get back until after six. I had been up early to begin with, so I completely crashed when I got home. I actually look forward to my 2000 words a day. It’s not as hard as I thought it would be. It really takes the pressure off when you’re not so concerned with quality. I just put words in to get the word count up, and whenever I get the urge to revise, I just tell myself that I’ll fix it later. I’m better at revising and editing anyway, so I don’t anticipate that that will be a problem. Just getting something down on paper to work with is the hard part.