So I did the calculations and figured out that if I write 5000 words a week I'll have 70,000 (the avg. length of a novel) by Christmas. That sounds so easy. I've got over 6000 words already and if I can just sit down to write twice a week and crank out 2500 words I'll easily hit my goal of having something finished and ready to be sent out by the time school lets out in May.
Can it really be that easy? The words are coming out so effortlessly. They might all be crap so far, but it's fun and I can always spend the last 4 months rewriting and editing it into something that resembles a novel. I think that's the part I'll have the most fun with anyway. I've already done that hard part and that is just sitting down and starting. Now I just have to follow this character thru her trials and tribulations, and then later go back and add anything that is missing, and take out the parts that suck. I'm excited, and still nervous, but those calculations seemed to set my mind at ease. All I need to do is make the word count and by Christmas I'll have something that I can give myself as a gift.
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