End of month writing progress update

[heleninwales]

It's the last day of March and it's been a very productive month. I'm getting to the end of the novel which now stands at 101,600 words. I'd set a target of 9k words for the month and actually wrote 12.4k. I'm away for a couple of days at the start of April with no computer access, but I hope to keep writing with pen and paper.

In other news...

I was just returning the shopping trolley to the trolley enclosure by the door to the Co-op when a woman walking the other way stopped me, saying that I looked familiar. I also thought that she looked familiar and said so.

There then followed a few minutes of trying to work out how we possibly knew one another. Having been a teacher of adults for many years, there are lots of people who know me, but we ruled out courses at the local colleges. Finally, she asked if I'd ever kept horses. Bingo! We'd both been parents involved in the local Pony Club, back between the mid-80s and the early 90s.

We reminisced for a few minutes. Neither of us are involved with horses now and our daughters are grown up, but it was a surprising encounter. Considering the size of our little town, it's a wonder we haven't seen one another before now.

Comments

[kaishin108]

You have done so great with your writing wow.

How fun that you and that woman were persistent and figured it out! :)

[heleninwales]

March was a good month for writing. April probably won't be as productive because it's a couple of days shorter and I've been away in Birmingham, though I did write a little by hand each day.

I'm also glad that we worked out the connection. It would have niggled me afterwards if we hadn't.

[eve_prime]

Congratulations on your progress!

I agree, it can be quite an effort to figure out where I know people from, at this point.

[heleninwales]

March was a good month for writing. April probably won't be as productive because it's a couple of days shorter and I've been away in Birmingham, though I did write a little by hand each day.

I'm also glad that we worked out the connection. It would have niggled me afterwards if we hadn't.

[eve_prime]

I'm impressed that you were able to keep writing on your trip to Birmingham!

[heleninwales]

As I was travelling alone, I had plenty of time in the evening in the hotel room and again the following day between breakfast and going out to meet my friends. So I just spent 30 minutes or so each day scribbling snatches of first draft and/or plot notes for the upcoming scene, but it counts for the Get Your Words Out challenge and will make actually writing the first draft easier.