July 2019 – Loose-Leaf and Bound

Milestone: 30,000 Words

Pain. Lots of pain.
Wat, A Knight’s Tale

Well, I’ve hit that 30k milestone, and if I’m being honest, it’s the most bittersweet feeling I’ve ever felt. The joy and relief of hitting another milestone, all mixed with despair that about ten thousand of those words don’t count.

Why don’t they count, you ask?

Milestone: 20,000 Words

Hot damn.

Twenty thousand words already, and it’s only been a week and three days. You know what that means? I’m tired.

But, I’m making good progress. I’ve written about seven different scenes. Some of them are consecutive, some of them aren’t. All in all, I’ve written the first couple of chapters and a few different sections near the middle of the story. Eventually, I’ll work on the end, but not for a while.

I can’t share everything with you, but here’s a short snippet:

Writing Is Hard: Writer’s Block

Writer’s block makes it very easy to want to give up. You’re twenty thousand words deep and all of a sudden you’re dreading writing the rest of the scene you’re on. It comes on suddenly, with no warning, taking no prisoners.

Fatigue. Weariness. Mental exhaustion. Synonyms (ha).

Milestone: The First 15K

I don’t know how we got here, but I’m glad to have arrived.

Fifteen thousand may not seem like much in the long run, but that’s over ten percent of my eighty-five thousand word goal (ten percent isn’t much, but please let me have this).

Here’s a lil’ snippet to celebrate:

I’m Writing A Book!

If you’ve already been following this blog, then this isn’t anything new. There’s been a word counter in the side bar for a week now. It also says it on the front page of this website. That being said, I’m super excited to share with you that I’m writing a book!

This isn’t the first time I’ve attempted writing a book. My best attempt ended up around sixty thousand words. I wrote all that when I was thirteen, so you can imagine how horrible it was (the typos, the typos).