Yesterday was a frustrating day writing wise.  I was hoping to get a lot of writing done, which I did, but not as much as I had hoped. 

With 3 novels going simultaneously, the average wordcount is 5001 words a day.  I can’t afford to get behind, and if I do, I’m hoping that I can quickly close in on my word deficit.

My Secret Service Novel- I ended up with 1206 words, so just a few hundred words short of 1667.

Harry Potter and the Giant Prehistoric Chicken- only 414 words, which was a big disappointment and my major source of frustration yesterday.

My 2006 sequel- 1672 words, which I was really happy about.

Given that I’m pretty frustrated with the Hary Potter fanfic, I’ve decided to put that off for a day or two, and try to get ahead with my other two novels.  The words will come, it’s just a matter of finding the right inspiration.

I have an excel spreadsheet with several columns.  The 1st column is the day, the 2nd is where I should be with my wordcount, one column for each of my novels with each days wordcount, a column for my total wordcount, and a final column for how many words I’m behind.  I’m going to update it everyday with my totals.  It’ll definitely help me keep track of where I am and where I need to be. 

Like I said a paragraph or two up, I’m going to try to get ahead with my secret service novel and my 2006 sequel.  The 1st week is a really important week to get ahead with my wordcount.  For one thing, even though I have plenty of writing time, I can’t guarantee that everything will be perfect this month.  Having extra words will help make up for days I can’t write, or for the days when I don’t write/when I have writers block.  And if I can get ahead and stay ahead, perhaps I’ll even finish early this year (for at least one anyway), which should open up some time thanksgiving weekend if/when I need it.

Including today’s totals (which aren’t up to date yet), my word count is: 5063.