Writing Stats for August 15-21

This week was another good week! Here are the stats:

Monday: +104 words (started Chapter 3)

Tuesday: +138 words

Wednesday: +171 words

Thursday: No Writing

Friday: +125 words

Saturday: +131 words

Sunday: +317 words

Total Words Written This Week: 986 words

Total Project Wordcount: 6070

This was a good week! I got through chapter 2 which is kind of sluggish, which is something that future Brystan has to worry about.

I started Chapter 3, which is gonna be a good one, but one that will push my writing skills. I am NOT a speech writer, however, one of my characters has to give a very powerful speech. I wrote the speech, but looking back, it is pretty sparse. It's just the skeleton of what I want it to be. But, once Act I is done (which according to my outline is the first 8 chapters) then I start edits, so I am looking forward to fleshing that out and adding the meat to the bones.

Anyway. New goals for this coming week.

Write 6 days.

100 words each session.

1000 words for the week.

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Coffee Shop Chat!

What I Did This Week... This week has been super busy! Sunday: Had a meeting at Job #2 suuuuper early in the morning (I am NOT a morning person), and then it was off to church for the Palm Sunday service, which was awesome. The church was freshly decorated for the season, and the children had a Palm Parade, where they walked around the block, waving their new palms around. Super cute. Then, I went to the coffee shop to TRY to get some writing in (that didn't go too well, but I had a delicious pot of green tea). And then I came home and worked on school work (I get my Masters in 2 months!). Workout and Meditation. Monday: Worked at Job #1 (the library), ran errands, workout and meditation. Tuesday: Worked at Job #2 (corporate job, ew). Had a TERRIBLE day, but that was made better by these beautiful flowers from my SO: Wednesday: Worked on my Grad Portfolio ALL DAY (Did I mention I get my Masters in TWO MONTHS??) ...

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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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