I didn’t make up much if any ground toward my yearly goal this week, but this was by no means a disaster like the past month has been. At the very least, I didn’t fall too much behind which means a better position than I felt like last week.
With this said, here’s the totals from last week.
Writing statistics for the week ending 6 September 2025:
Words: 4,224
Days writing: 4 of 7.
Days revising or planning: 2 of 7 for 60 minutes.
Daily Writing Goals Met (500+ words or 30 minutes of planning/revisions): 6 of 7 days.
It’s a far better start to September than I had in August, I’ll say that, although my word count for this week was a a little more than 100 words under what I try to hope for. Regardless, it is not a disaster, which is far better than what I could say for the past four weeks.
This question was what I pondered last week, and what I found (as I often find) is when you get reluctant to write a certain scene or section of a story, the solution is to start writing about something else and keep going on it. (It also helps if you decide to cut the scene and move on to another part of the book, but at some point you do need to write and produce something.
For this week, it worked better than what was working. So, I’m planning on doing more of it. If I have a big enough month, hopefully I can get caught up to my goal of 225,000 words for the year. We’ll see if it works.
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