Three good writing weeks in a row (as the Count from Sesame Street might have said), and this one was the best of the bunch (nearly a 1,000 more words than last week. Might I be on a streak here?
The stats:
Writing statistics for the week ending 15 November 2025:
Words: 6.847
Days writing: 7 of 7.
Days revising or planning: 0 of 7 for 0 minutes.
Daily Writing Goals Met (500+ words or 30 minutes of planning/revisions): 7 of 7 days.
My goal for the year is to write 225,000 words during the 2025 calendar year. As of the beginning of this week (11 days from Thanksgiving) I was just 1,800 words away from the 200,000 mark. I’ve gone from feeling like I was running behind pace for my goal for the past three months to having it well within my grasp.
On Halloween 2025, The Land, The River, and The Waste (working title due to me being a superstitious sucker), the sci-fi horror project in a little river town on the Mississippi River in Iowa, was just some ideas bopping around in my head and decorating my notebooks. Now I have a rough draft manuscript of around 9,000 words and it continues to grow. It feels like I’m writing about home when I’m doing this story. It’s become as personal of a story as I think I’ve written, and I want to see how it plays out.
Have a good week everyone, and all you writers keep writing.
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