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Writing Stats for July 18-July 24

A pretty successful week this week!

Monday: +241 words 

Tuesday: +118 words

Wednesday: +114 words

Thursday: No Writing

Friday: +179 words AND I finished Chapter 1

Saturday: +319 words

Sunday: +232 words

Current Status: Chapter 1 is done at 2091 word and chapter 2 is started

Total word count: 2642

Words written this week:1203

Camp NaNoWriMo update: At this rate you'll finish August 17 (better than September!)

I accomplished my goal of writing 6 days this week, and for each of those writing times to be over 100 words.  

I'm making strides and getting words down.  No new goals for this coming week.  I wrote 1203 words this last week. Working for 1220 this week.  We'll see what happens!



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