No, my novel did not have a breakdown. Also, I did not have a breakdown while finishing my novel, amazingly enough. But! Finish it, I did!
The Time After came in at 94,070 words. This looks like a lot of words, and I suppose it is if you write them all at once. Here’s the week-by-week breakdown of that:
Week 1: 5,069
Week 2: 5,388
Week 3: 6,827
Week 4: 5,291
Week 5: 7,774
Week 6: 8,081
Week 7: 8,637
Week 8: 5,833
Week 9: 5,004
Week 10: 7,214
Week 11: 6,113
Week 12: 5,226
Week 13: 5,707
Week 14: 5,531
Week 15: 6,283
But let’s break it down further. I worked on this novel for 101 days. If you look at it like that, I wrote, on average, 931 words per day. That’s not a blistering pace. It’s doable. It’s about the amount that can fit into Anne Lamott’s one-inch picture frame.
For me, the best way to stack up words is to stack them up a little bit at a time on a regular basis.
In other news, on the day I finished the novel, I also sold a short story. That’s not something that happens every day. But it did on Thursday.
Writing Work:
- The Time After ~6,283 words
- Incriminating Evidence ~ edits
- The Fine Art of Keeping Quiet ~ copy edits
Submissions:
- Abandonment Issues
Rejections:
- Doreen’s Muse
Acceptances:
- Incriminating Evidence to Fantasy Scroll Magazine
Publications:
- None
Writing Wrongs 