Week 1: 23,502
Overall, a pretty good week–quantity-wise, anyway. I’ve faced down more than a few “THIS IS CRAP!” moments, but have managed to remind myself that everything is crap until at least the first rewrite.
I’m averaging 3,357.4 words per day, which would come out to about 100,722 words if I keep it up. I’m not planning on having The Murder School be quite that long. After the Service is about 69,000, and the first draft of All That Death is just under 75,000. I expect The Murder School to be longer than either, but not by 25,000 words. If you throw out my single highest & lowest days, I’m averaging right around 2,900 a day–I’d end up with about 91,000 words, which is still longer than I’d like, but acceptable for a first draft. I’m shooting for about 80-85,000 words for this one.
So, not only should I be able to finish my 50K without much problem, I should also actually be able to finish the entire draft before November 30.
