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I started my second novel of the month today. Now my screenshots don’t show the total word count for the month, but I can tell you. I’m up to 79,930 words for the month. If I would have realized how close I was to 80k, I would have added a few more.
Oh, well.
It was a rough start this morning. I began a new novel in a totally different genre. I love switching between genres but sometimes it takes a day or so to get myself in the right head space.
Going from dragons, vampires, and epic battles to contemporary sweet romance can be a bit of a challenge. Especially since I didn’t have adequate time to outline for this new one. But by this afternoon, I got my groove back on.
Thankfully I’m also working on the second draft of a book in this same series right now, so my mind is at least in the same world. I just have a new set of main characters to get to know and sometimes the beginning of a book like that can be similar to meeting someone for the first time.
The conversation can be a bit awkward. Or is that just me? Anyway, I threw one main character into a funny situation to help get things going. It seemed to help. Sometimes you just have to get creative.
So, where am I at right now with all of my WIP’s (works in progress)?
Over 6500 for the day!
That’s just incredible. Especially when there are some authors that try to sell something not much longer than that as a book.
Switching in a day is good. I read Orson Scott Card needs a week or two to release himself from a book’s world before he switches to the next.
Have you done a 7K day yet? You were nearly there.
Thanks, James! I actually broke 7k the day before I wrote this post – on day fifteen. I wrote 7,353 to be exact. I was bent on finishing my novel that day, and that was the number of words needed. I think it was my second time passing 7k. Crazy stuff! Although not as insane as an author I know online who routinely writes 11-12k a day. Doubt I’ll catch up to her, at least not any time soon!