Well, it wasn’t the worst week I ever had, but considering the pace I’m trying to set, it was nowhere near what I wanted it to be.
I’m getting into the strange section of my new work in progress (WIP), where I might need to start trimming words from it to speed up the action. Which might mean I have to get going on other projects as well to keep up my full productivity.
The numbers for last week:
Writing statistics for the week ending 9 May 2026:
Words: 3,846
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): 5 of 7 days.
I thought I did a lot better until I totaled up the numbers, but to be fair there was a mini-slump during the first two days of last week that explains it. If I did just as well with the first two days as I did the last five, I might have been pushing 5,000 words for the week.
As I mentioned in my May newsletter here, I’ve now given the WIP I started on Halloween last year, the sci-fi environmental horror project set in a little Mississippi River town in Iowa, the official title of Shadows on the Mississippi.
Now that I’m over 50,000 words on the project, it has too much momentum to stop.
Since I was worried I spent so much time thinking about the setting and worldbuilding in the first run, I’m adding a new opening that I think moves the plot and characterization along at a bit brisker pace. I need to make the first 50 pages something that hooks in readers.
Have a good week everyone, and all you writers keep writing.
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