Progress

While my writing sessions have been a bit limited lately, I'm still showing some respectable progress as I close in on an estimate of 25% done with the first draft.  Well,.. 24.7% to be exact.  The spreadsheet has helped to keep me on track and has been surprisingly encouraging.  (See my last blog post on details)

As the numbers go higher, the end goals seems more attainable.  I really have to concentrate more on making time to write, but my day job work schedule has been somewhat sporadic.  I could work there less, not putting in so much unpaid overtime, but I'm the boss and have a responsibility to make sure things get done, so that's not likely to happen anytime soon.

The story I'm working on is getting into some interesting parts to write, so it's been challenging and fun at the same time.  For this particular tale, the farther I go into the novel, the more complex the interactions become between the characters.  The story also escalates in to more spectacular details which I hope will work well once it all comes together.

That hope that your story will be fun, entertaining and exciting is what both drives me, and frightens me.  I'm hoping everyone else will enjoy the story as much as I do, but that's really the big unknown when writing.  From everything I've heard, you just have to approach the first draft and make it the best you can, allowing your imagination to go wherever it wants, and that's what I'm attempting to do.  Only time will tell if I've succeeded. 

As I get into the sections of the novel that are really stretching boundaries, I'll need to stay vigilant to allow myself the freedom to be creative.  In my last session I actually changed part of my outline for an additional scene I needed to add and thus strayed from the original plan, but I know it will work.  I just need to keep at it. 

April 6th, 2014:
Current Novel Word Count: 20,999 Words (Should have written 1 more word!)
Percentage towards 1st Draft Goal: 24.7%