Howdy,
Let’s do the 10-minute-thing, because I’m feeling a little frozen and stuck by the fact that we’re only seven thousand words away from being done with this year-of-blogging challenge to 200,000 words—and I’m currently five thousand words behind.
Which I have to make up.
I just have to. No other way to go, right? Got to finish.
So 12,000 more words for me to finish this year (my birthday to my birthday, in the middle of October) of writing 200K.
I do also feel a little spent. Ready to be done, and not sure about the ol’ idea-generator for finishing. They’ll come, but I am blinded by the finish line. Ready to be done.
Finished will serve as a starting line for something else, but this project of sometimes scratching for words (in word count form) has run its course. That’s how I feel today.
Of course, it hasn’t actually run its course. Not yet. Not all the way.
I still have 12,000 more words to go.
The good news is—though any word count would seem big today because I only want it to be down to zero, up to 200,000—somehow twelve thousand words as a total doesn’t daunt me as too many. Seems very doable, even as the days are waning and I’ve put myself behind almost to the point of having to write double-days to get it done. That’s just what I’m going to have to do, and I’m glad that I’ve worked to the point that there’s faith that the word count will happen.
That’s a new strength that I look forward to taking into a new project—after a couple of weeks of getting nearly a thousand words a day down. Down and done.
Nine and a half minutes … now what? An extra half-minute for my next writing session.
I’ll need it. That, and more. Much more. We’re on the march, the sprint of the march.
—Billy
Reading. Writing. Living.
Word Count: 188,443 / On Pace: 193,050 / Year’s Goal: 200,000
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