Last week’s log:
MONDAY 9,654
TUESDAY 9,892
WEDNESDAY 0
THURSDAY 0
FRIDAY 0
SATURDAY 0
For a total of 19,546 words.
I finished the current book on Tuesday and have been plotting a brand new series for the rest of the week. Because the series is new there is more research and world building, and characters to develop, so I expect the plotting phase of this book to take longer than normal.
The super-interesting thing about last week was that I wrote 19,546 words in two days.
The week before, I wrote 19,569 words in seven days.
The dictation software has made that much difference, that quickly.
I usually count on getting 36,000 words written in a full week of writing. If I had maintained that (easy) pace last week across the six days, I would have written 58,638 words!
As I’m still training the software and not pushing my speed, I fully expect that the word count per week will rise higher than that. How much higher is an open question right now. I look forward to experimenting, though.
I am currently dictating everything I can. One of the hiccups I’ve discovered, though, is that I’m self-conscious about dictating when there are other people in the house. That will require a conversation, I think, to resolve how me talking constantly to myself impinges upon other dwellers’ environment.
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