I’m kind of pinching myself, because I don’t really believe it. But that’s what my writing software says. And I’m putting the word “technically” in my post, because this is what happened.

Last night, at 12:30 am (so technically, today), I started writing. I finished at 2:00 a.m. and had 2,581 words. When I started writing again today, I noticed that the update for today’s word count included last night’s writing (because unlike me, Liquid Story Binder obviously starts each day at 12:00 am. Me? After midnight is considered still part of the day as long as my eyes are open!)

I just finished up another writing session - I managed three writing sessions today (MY today, as in after I woke up). My word count for November 22 is showing up as 6,070 words. I’ll take it! I’ll take it!

Maybe I should say that it’s 6,070 words in the last 24 hours. I guess that’s more accurate.

Doesn’t matter. This is the most writing I’ve done in a day in a long time. If I do my math correctly, even when I take away the 2,581 words from last night, it’s still 3,489 words! (I know it was 2,581 words last night only because I happened to Tweet it to Twitter last night right before I went to bed).

The other wonderful thing? It’s actually the best writing I’ve done on this NaNoWriMo novel so far. When I got that last plot piece yesterday morning, it really had an effect. I wrote the scene that had come to me last night, even though it’s actually farther along in the book than I actually was. And once I had that scene down, it was like the characters started really solidifying for me.

My work log statistics show that it took me 3 hours and 8 minutes (and 41 seconds) to write those 6,070 words (have you been noticing how much I’m liking repeating those numbers? 6,070! Such a nice, nice number!) If I apply what Stephen King recommends, and write for four hours a day, I’d have around (okay, need to get a calculator here …) maybe 8000 words each day!

And I think I’m being conservative here, because I kept Liquid Story Binder open when I was writing that scene where I had to:

1. Try to find out if an autopsy will show that someone has had an abortion. (Didn’t find out.)

2. See if scars can be dated (apparently, yes, but only if within the first three to four months of scar formation).

I’m pretty sure the Liquid Story Binder clock kept on ticking while I looked these things up.

So 8,000 words actually is probably very doable if I write four hours a day.

Of course, I know most of those words will likely be scrapped during the editing process, or massaged and tweaked and fiddled with until they’re beyond recognition.

But still!

I’m starting to realize I can really do this. And once this book is done, I can start on the next one. And the next one.

The world is my oyster.

Tags: NaNoWriMo, Stephen King, Writing