Tuesday Tally - 10 weeks to deadline

Status of my novel

total words to date: 64,040
pages: 277
completed chapters: 12

Last week's goals:

• keep working on 100 day challenge - still keeping on top of it
  
• write W.W. newsletter - finished and mailed
  
• fix at least one of the two major problems with Mirror - my story is now over 10k words... maybe after the additions I can do some trimming
  
• write at least one scene in Emergence - just one, but hey, that was the goal!
  
• decide what to do with freewebs blog - kinda-ish on this one. I've been putting off making a solid decision. for now, will start with related goal listed below...
  

Goals for this week:

• finish last couple days of 100 day challenge
  
• dig up the best posts of freewebs blog and cross post them here
  
• finish current revisions for Mirror
  
• finish chapter 13
  
• outline my first ever website mailing (visit my website to subscribe!)
  

With just under ten weeks until my self-imposed deadline for novel completion, I wanted to have an estimate on the number of scenes I would need to write, as I could very possibly reach 90,000 words and not be at The End. So, I spent three hours on Saturday storyboarding the rest of my novel, scene by scene. Some are more fleshed out than others, and some may be completely different when I get there, or nonexistent, but I have a much better idea now. 33 scenes left to write and I'm done! My deadline is still looking manageable - about 2,500 words a week or just over 3 scenes a week. My current scenes average 800 words, so I should end about the same whether I go by words or scenes. Feel free to wish me luck, but I'm thinking this will be more work than luck. A good kind of work though. Much better bossing characters around (or in some cases them bossing you), than being bossed at a regular job (or bossing other people for that matter).

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