Writing Goal Update

I haven’t written lately about how NANTUCKET’s been going – it’s because every day I keep thinking, yes! today’s the day I’ll finish this baby, wrap things up, print it all out and lock it away for six weeks to expand and meld together on its own (I’m assuming the unread manuscript must do something in the drawer over those six weeks).

And every day I inch a little bit closer. Not only that, but I haven’t been writing every day, either. I’m finding it a lot easier to procrastinate now that I am so close to finishing.

How close, you ask? I have ten more scenes to go, I think. On the other hand, that’s not such a good indicator, since I had ten scenes to go when I went back to my computer tonight (I’d done a session earlier, too), and even though I did write a scene, another one popped into its place that I hadn’t foreseen until I’d actually written this scene.

So, I still have ten scenes to go.

Here’s my progress since my last writing update post:

July 24 word count: 4,713 words

July 27 word count: 2,112 words

July 29 (today) word count: 3,780 words

NANTUCKET total word count to date: 90,706

One thing about coming to the end of the novel – every scene I’ve been writing lately has been accomplishing a lot of stuff. Which really makes me wonder about some of the earlier scenes I’ve written … in comparison, they seem rather lazy in terms of what gets accomplished in them.

I’m guessing that’s one of the things I’ll be addressing in the edit phase.

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1. How’s the Writing Going, You Ask?
2. Today’s Writing Goal
3. On Writing: Scene by Scene
4. On Writing: Feeling Disjointed
5. On Writing: Slowing Down

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