Walls Inside My Head

20,969 / 50,000 (41.9%)

So, I ended up losing steam in the middle of the month – first due to a near-ninja escape from my house, then due to OMFG NEW COMPUTER BROKE WTF, and then holidays. I had originally been picking up speed – I had a good week where I wrote between 2000 and 3000 words a night, but it was not to be! I ended up having issues with things at home (namely: I am related to crazy people) and jobs (re: I CAN’T GET EXPERIENCE IF NO ONE HIRES ME). After that I got my new compy – the beautiful, custom-built EVA, but she came with a dead back fan, and in three days my drool-worthy beast of a GPU crapped out. In the middle of a writing session. I lost an entire scene of almost 800 words. After that, I basically couldn’t bear to write CoT for at least a week, and then job stuff and holiday stuff snuck up on me and yesterday was the first time I had time to write. Only to discover – I had lost every word of that scene, save for the original first sentence – which I had re-written before the crash! I tapped out a few words, trying to recover the lost scene, but…well, that didn’t go so well.

In any case, I truly enjoyed writing for NaNoWriMo so I decided I’d try doing a monthly word count of 25,000 for CoT. I like keeping track of how much I’m writing, and hopefully it will point out the problems I have with my word count. Also, it should keep me in enough practice to easily double what I write normally for NaNo next year. Also, it will give me great incentive to keep updating the blog!