I managed 134 words yesterday. Not many but still keeping my butt in the chair and working. I did manage to find that pesky bit that I wasted some writing time looking for. I did have it in twice so deleted the second occurrence. So lost some words there.

Hopefully today will be a productive one. My opening number for today is 91909 words. We’ll see where I end up.

I started last night at 91619 words and finished with 91775 – an increase of 156 words. Not a lot of words but I ended up skimming over the same passage looking for something that I was certain was still there but I must have deleted it. I wanted to move it to a different spot further along in the scene.

In the end, I put it back in from memory. It was only a single line of dialogue.

As I said last night, I had a dyslexic moment when I recorded my last word count the other night. I had written down 91542 words. You can imagine my dismay when I opened the document last night and it only read 91452. The only good thing is, it makes my efforts from last night look more impressive. When I called it quits last night with a fried brain, my word count was 91619. Still not as many words as I’ve been able to peel off in some nights and I didn’t get to the scene that I intended working on but I’m getting there.

I decided to work my way to it rather than jump to it and have to go back and make sure my ducks were in a row, the plot bunnies lassoed etc.

Well I worked on my manuscript some more tonight. I discovered before I even started that I had a dyslexic moment when I last recorded my word count and I hadn’t accomplished as much as I thought I had. Oh well, it makes for a more impressive number for today’s efforts.

Calling it an evening. Brain is fried.

I’ve managed another 234 words in my manuscript. Not bad after spending the entire day at work in front of a computer. This is about the time I tend to crash and burn on weeknights so the more I get written by this time, the better.

I’ve got a few ideas percolating for upcoming scenes but at the same time, I’m going to end up deleting a great chunk. What can I say other than it’s just the direction this revision is taking me in. When I get to that point, I’ll try to document the word count in the new material as well as the same in what I end up chopping. All those lovely words… hitting the cutting room floor.

But in this revision of my novel, my heroine is a far more likeable person… even if she does have the occasional “all about me” moment.

After having a couple of lean days (still managed to write though), I succeeded in getting 644 words committed to “paper” yesterday. Hoping for about half that for today. Time will tell if I’m successful.

Well I wrote for a bit, but deleted a lot too so am calling tonight a word-count neutral night. With the changes, I could even end up in a deficit situation. Oh well, will remedy that over the weekend,

In the meantime my computer needs charging so will let it rest and rejuvenate for tomorrow.

It was only 137 words but I wrote! That’s all I’m aiming for. Some days, I accomplish more… other days not so many. Weekend is almost here so hopefully, it will be productive on the writing front.