My Writing Efforts in July.
I am starting to feel a bit more like a writer who is actually doing more than dreaming about becoming a novelist. July has been my best writing month this year, as shown in the graph opposite. I wrote 17,127 words of my novel in the month, an average of 552 words per day. And I reached my target of 500 words or more on all but two days of the month. Unfortunately, that means that once I met the quota I did not usually write much more. The most words I wrote in a day was 821. I have now written about 120,000 words of the novel. I had hoped to have the first draft finished this month, but my characters continue to resist making the inevitable decision to abandon their search and get to the climax. They’re not as bad as climate change deniers though. At the moment they are having an argument and the pro keep-on-searching characters are making a lot of sense, too much sense for them to just quit looking. My characters obviously don’t care that I have committed to write a s...