For my first book, the Celtic Shelf, I would routinely post new journal entries every week containing little more than the current page count. This became real annoying real fast. So this time around, I'm just going to routinely update this journal every friday afternoon. No, I don't expect you to actually care about any of this. I just do it to force myself to be productive. Occasionally it works.

(BTW - that's the total page count down there, not the number of pages written this week - like in my dreams )

Week in Review
Well, I broke the 100 page mark, but I think I'm also reaching the breaking point on the rough draft. One thing I've been noticing about novel writing is that books are just as much written back to front as well as front to back. This draft is just loaded to the hilt with notes about things that need to be either written in or removed from the previous chapters. So there is a huge tidal pull towards calling the rough draft finished and starting the next draft from page 1.

Unfortunately, I haven't yet gotten to the end of the story. I have a good idea of how it ends, but the intricacies about the tail end of the plot haven't been nailed down just yet. Until that happens, I know I'm bound to be thinking up yet even more stuff that needs to be mentioned in the previous chapters. So I guess I'll just keep trudging forward....


Rough Draft
11/06/09 - 103 -
10/30/09 - 78 -
10/23/09 - 75 -
10/16/09 - 61 -
10/09/09 - 36 -
10/02/09 - 21 -
09/28/09 - begun -