A couple of days ago, my beta, JK issued me a challenge. That challenge? Reach the 20 000 word mark by the end of the month. And do you know what? Even with a few bumps in the road1 I have managed to do that with just over four hours to spare.
What makes this even more exciting is that I only reached the 10k mark on the 15th of this month – that means I wrote 10k – doubled my total – in half a month. If I keep this speed up2 that means I can write 20 000 words of a draft a month. And that can result in one 80 000 word novel in four months.
And that means my goal is completing the first draft of Lionheart before NaNo – where I plan to write as much of The Circled Green3 as possible – is a very distinct possibility indeed. Let’s hope that is the case after all, so JK can have plenty of stuff to beta. 
In the meantime: 20 000 words! Yippee!
- Like the day that my computer was busted, and I had to spend the day writing by hand… and then typing it up, or the fact I’d forgotten quiz night [↩]
- And it does not seem like it is impossible, as I have discovered that I can write more than 1000 words a day if I focus [↩]
- My Victorian Era faerie story [↩]
First of all, hello! I just stumbled onto your blog today and I love it!
Congratulations on hitting 20000 words! That’s awesome! I hope you hit all the rest of your writing goals, too! That is so exciting!
Small world, too. I married a New Zealander and we are planning to move back there within the year.
That’s awesome! 20,000 words is a great milestone. I know I will be excited when I reach just half that with my project (I’m only at about 4000 now). Best of luck with completing the remaining 75%. Writing at least 60,000 words before November seems like a huge task, but I wish you many creative and coherent words and thoughts!
Yay 20,000 is quite a milestone!! I bet that feels good.
keep up the good work, I can’t wait to read some of your work!