Holiday Goals: Day Three

Goal word count: 3200 (I gave up on the idea of adding the previous day's missed words. That was never gonna happen!)

Actual word count: 2700

Comments: So. Once again I've missed my daily quota. BUT the awesome news is that I miscalculated how many words I'd need to get to the end of my current project and so... I'm finished already! And I did several hundred words of a new project! And I had a wonderful dinner out to celebrate my four year dating-anniversary! (Okay, the exclamation marks shall stop now...)

Holiday Goals: Day Two

Goal word count: 3400

Actual word count: 2600

Comments: Oops... So, um, there's this book called LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR that I kind of read about HALF of while I was meant to be writing today. BAD ME! But the 2600 words were fun... and LOLA is awesome. So the day was great :-)

Teaser Tuesday (16): Speak

Title: Speak
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson



I'm saved by a Centro bus. It coughs and rumbles and spits out two old women in front of the grocery store.



I know, I know, I should have read this book already, but better late than never!

I really like the way this book is written, like a whole bunch of small scenes stuck together to make Melinda's story. It is fascinating to read about how she sees the world and labels the things around her. I am really enjoying (is that the right word to use with this kind of story? Well you know what I mean) it, especially as this is a character I find myself relating very strongly to.


Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!
• Share the title and author too so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

Holiday Goals: Day One

Goal word count: 3200

Actual word count: 3000

Comments: Not bad considering boyfriend decided we needed to spend some together (quite right) and so part of the day went to movies and the mall. So I should totally reach tomorrow's quota :-)

Holiday Goals

It's the end of term 3 and we have a week off before the final school term of the year begins. I have big plans for this week, plans that begin (and end) with writing 16000 words in 5 days. This works out to 3200 words a day. Now you may be thinking, that's easy, you'll totally manage that, but I am unfortunately one of those writers who mulls things over in my head far too much before putting them down onto a page/screen. Thus, the most I've written in a day is just over 2000 words.
*Sigh*
Setting myself an unrealistic goal here? Probably!




PS. Sorry, second campaigner challenge, it's just not gonna happen!