Words written yesterday: 500
Words written today: 700.
Total words this week: Just under 8,000
Total words in WIP: Just under 12,000
There are maybe a 1,000 in my notebook too.
But, I reckon I’ve reached saturation point. I’m knackered, and need a holiday! I had hoped to go back home with a tan, but I’m as pasty white as I was when I arrived. Tomorrow, if the sun comes back out, I might sit by the pool.
In total I’ve got around 12,000 words and when my mentor has been appointed I will need to send the first 10,000 to be critiqued, which was really what this was about.
Hopefully I’ve learned that if I can write flat out here, I can get on and do that in Bangkok too.
Thank you for all your encouragement. I kept going because I wanted to be able to come here and tell you how much I had managed to write.
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- Jenny Beattie
- I moved with my family to Bangkok in July 2005. What do I do? I make hats and costumes; I’ve written articles, a novel and a non-fiction book is underway… I've held a variety of volunteer positions within the expat community. Tea stains is where I write and illustrate the things that consume me: life in Thailand, shop windows, books, cats, making, hats, fascinators, tea and the colour orange.
What am I reading in 2016?
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
The Year of Taking Chances by Lucy Diamond
Mr Phillips by John Lanchester
Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
The Ice Twins by SK Tremayne
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10 comments:
That's excellent JJ, you really deserve a holiday! I just can't keep up that level of word count for very long without a break, and I can't think of a better place to enjoy it than where you are now.
BRILLIANT JJ!! Give yourself a huge pat on the back - and carry on after your holiday. You can do it!
That is a brilliant word count! I've burnt myself out too. I find it impossible to go on for too long without a break!
Well done JJ. See, you can do it!! And do loads of it.
Enjoy your day by the pool. Well deserved:-)
JJ, I'm so proud of you! 8000 words in a week is a terrific word count by most writers' standards. And, yes, you now know how to do it - if you can manage, say, two 1000-word days a week while you're in Bangkok, you'll have the first draft done by next summer. It's entirely do-able, you know. Enjoy your break, you've earned it.
Blimey, you certainly deserve a holiday after that excellent word count.
I don't blame you having a day of relaxation by the pool. What bliss.
JJ that's utterly astonishing! And you're making me feel guilty for not writing a single new word in weeks. Have I missed something? How did you go from writing 100 words a day on Helen's blog to well over 1,000? I want some of that fairy dust please!
Wow. 8-o
Just look at that word meter!
I'm dead impressed.
(And just a tinsy bit jealous!)
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Yippee! Fantastico! xo
Good going, JJ! That laptop is smoking!
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