Day 3: After Dark Write-umentary
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous):
1497
Total word count to-date:
4,294
Notes:
I’d intended to start much earlier and to write for a few hours. Instead, I celebrated the new year by sleeping until nearly noon, watching a couple movies with my kids, editing an older manuscript, submitting a piece to a magazine, chatting with friends and generally … NOT writing.
Oh well. I almost didn’t think I’d get my hour in today. 1500 words in a hour is good, no?
Time allotted to writing:
Exactly 1 hour. I even timed it.
Completed:
1st half of Chapter 2.
Favorite line:
“Just a book, Mackenzie. I’m betting you’re not even remotely interested in reading it.”







Impressive in an hour. I crit for a writer member, edited (twice) for another, played about with the opening paragraph for a new query letter, and then–finally–got to writing. After making adjustments to what I’d written the day before, I managed a grand total of about 700 words
But 20 words added is better than nothing, right? So long as you make those 20 words count?
Exactly! Just make those 20 words count!