60k!
November 29th 2002 -
Wednesday
I finally started getting my act together on Wednesday night, and managed my 2k words again. Actually, I did about 2500, which put me back on the 60k schedule. Phew.
Thursday
I took Thursday off work – easy when you’re a contractor, you just ask for it – in order to catch up with my writing, making up for break I took over last weekend after reaching 50k words. I figured, 700 words per hour, twelve hours of work – an easy eight thousand words. Actually, it pulled together pretty well. I took a couple of breaks and watched “Ali G in da House” (which was tedious, cringe-worthy, and occasionally hilarious) but by 1:00am, I had managed 8350 words in one day, easily my best even writing effort, at least by numerical standards. So, I finally cracked 60k words. At this point though, it’s beyond the word-count. I’m just trying to finish the sucker, get through all the plot-points and be done with it before the deadline, this Saturday at midnight.
I think I might even get there.
It’s a bit of a bummer though. I think I’ve thoroughly alienated my roleplaying friends with my slavish insistance on getting the draft done by Saturday, because none of them can play on Sunday instead, and I’ve already skipped out last weekend from roleplaying and was late the week before. It’s always the friends who suffer.
Galit Says:
October 3rd, 2006 at 7:47 am
Hello,
What is the K means (60K that you did)?
I am a beginner writer, but I don’t know what it means to reach 60-100K?
Thanks Galit
admin Says:
October 3rd, 2006 at 11:11 pm
k = 1000 (as in, kilo). 60k words means that I had written 60,000 words of my novel.
It may seem a bit more like craft than art, but that’s how it gets, particularly at the middle bit of writing a novel. Also, wordcount tends to be important in speed-writing competitions, like Nanowrimo!