End of month writing update

[heleninwales]

So far the Get Your Words Out writing challenge on Dreamwidth is helping with the motivation to sit down and write. Choosing the habit challenge was the right decision. I have either written words or done something useful to progress the WIP on most days, even though I didn't reach my goal of 9,000 words. That's because I'm groping my way through a part of the novel that hadn't been pre-imagined in detail and so I'm planning as I go which I hate. But I plod on.

However, for the habit tracker I can count things like setting up a database of characters to replace the character list in yWriter which wasn't proving searchable enough for my needs. I've got all the characters transferred over now, which revealed that I had a character called "Edred" and another called "Edryd". Both are very minor, but Edryd is now Alwyn, just to avoid any possible confusion.

Because that's one of the interesting differences between a novel and real life. In novels you virtually never meet two characters with the same name, whereas in real life, you might know several people called Sue. (I know at least four.) Having said that, I do have a King Gavran and Prince Gavran his son, but that's royal families for you. :-)

Writing progress
January writing goal: 9,000 words

A Deadly Gift

Total words this month: 7,539 / 9,000 (81%)
Words in novel (to nearest 100 words): 81,500

Get Your Words Out

29/31 in January

29/300 overall

Comments

[kaishin108]

That's awesome!

[heleninwales]

Thank you. Some days I only write 150 words, but it does mount up and then I get better days when I can write nearly 1000 words.