The Home Stretch

10 Days to 20k, Day 9

Back at it today. For realz.

I wrote about homes today. Seb drove Martin to his childhood home. It didn’t go well because Act 2, drama, blah blah blah.

I’m going home tomorrow, except I’ve been home all week. When does your parent’s home stop being yours? I haven’t lived here full time in 17 years. It’s gotta be soon, right?

When I came up with this challenge, I thought 2000 words a day was aggressive but doable. It turns out I can do that in about an hour and a half if I don’t have many interruptions and my synopsis is solid. 4000 words is aggressive, and requires shutting out most of the people around me for the day. That will be harder to do when I get home and have to do things like go to work and talk to my husband. But the point is, at 2000 words a day, a 120k first draft can be written in two months. That’s crazy to me, but apparently achievable, particularly if I give myself some room for gravy on the weekends.

Fortunately, I like gravy and my weekends are often quiet.

Tomorrow is the last day. I’ve got a three hour train ride home. I could hit 30k if I really push it. I’m traveling with an eight-year-old, so we’ll see how that goes.

10 Days to 20k Summary
Day: 9
Words Written Today: 4143
Total Words Written: 26,631
Words Left: 0
Percent Complete: 133%

Allison Temple is a romance writer, novice cat lady, and expert couch potato from Toronto. Her debut series is coming from Riptide Publishing in 2018.

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