Um…actually I thought I posted this a couple of days ago, but obviously I messed something up.  Arghhhhhhh!

I made very good progress this past week, despite overthinking everything last Tuesday to the point where I could not write a single word. This is a habit I have. I run the plot line over and over, picking out every flaw, every tiny detail of why this can’t possibly work. The only way I can make any progress is to shut off my logical mind and just write scene by scene. I find that I iron out the snags as my characters evolve and grow.

And this breaks the book down into managable sizes. It is true that writing an entire book is overwhelming, and some days, I still think I will never manage to finish another one. But when I tell myself I only have to write 1,000 words, part of a scene that I sort of know where its going, I know I can at least manage that. So one piece of a scene leads to another, which leads to another and so on and so on. The big picture gets taken care of one small piece at a time.

This beginning draft is really chaotic, I have multiple scenes to move around, a couple where I want the POV changed, and the flow is broken up about every five pages or so, so next week I might work on getting it put into a decent organized draft. But for this week, I need to get more word count done, past the point where I abandoned my longest project–20,376 words. Once past that, I think I will be fully committed to the book and it will be entirely too late to back out. Here’s keeping my fingers crossed.

So totals. I did 4,104 words this week. I need to bump this up to over 5,000 to make my goals, but its progress. My grand total so far 17,292. I wrote at home this week and the library, so my snack total was only $2.51. I have 4 hours and 15 minutes total writing time–which isn’t a lot for those of you who don’t think you have time to write a book–$42.50 and I put in $30 gas. 

Grand totals 17,292 words and $265.85 for a cost of $.015 per word. At this rate a 90,000 word manuscript will cost me $1383.67. Hmmm, with the gas my total cost  is up this week, (unless I have completely screwed up my tally, which is entirely possible).  We’ll see how it balances out.