days two through thirty
Well, that was a month! After an optimistic start, I ended up restarting on day 4. I'd written about 3500 words and just wasn't loving it. I rethought my approach to what I'd written and started from scratch and got about 8000 words on that before deciding that I hated the characters, hated the plot, and could not imagine spending another word with them. So I started over again on day 10 and that went much better, but then I went out of town for a few days and got thrown off and didn't end up writing a word for about a week. I was only at about 16k on the morning of the 25th and was, like, "Is this the year I fail at this? Should I just not even try?" But by the night of the 25th I was at about 25k. Was a little over 32k by the next night, and then have averaged 4500 or so every day since. And finished it all with a little more than an hour to spare. So somehow another successful year! Creativity challenged. Glad I powered through; I'd have been so disappointed in myself if I'd just given up. Total words: 50349













