The Words: 2008 words total for the day. I’ve really been making use of the Sprinter site this year. When I write with my 15-year-old daughter (who isn’t doing a challenge but will do sprints with me some evenings to work on her own WIP), I write at the table with her, on my Freewrite Alpha, but when I write alone, it’s easier to do it on my computer. And I’m finding the Sprinter site nice for sprints (natch), plus it automatically saves what I write to the same location as my Alpha does, so it’s really just super convenient all across the board. These will probably be my go-to methods for drafting for the foreseeable future.

The Story: Poor Garend spent all of today’s writing recovering from the journey to Newland, which was really tough, physically speaking. And I may be stalling again, a little bit, because I didn’t plan any of this, and I’m really not a pantser. Except it’s not trying to pants a semblance of a story that’s causing the problem, it’s the utter lack of planning I’ve done for this whole new part of the world. This month’s writing was meant to be a way for me to explore it, but too many technical aspects are coming up and slowing me down. I may have to skip past some stuff or really just leave it super rudimentary.

Total word count: 14,144

The Words: 1670 words total for the day. I almost made today a short day, since I got a late start and am tired this evening. I figured I’d do a single 15-minute sprint, but when that got me just shy of 1000 words, I figured it wouldn’t take much more time to get to par, so I wrote until I hit another 667 words. (I wrote this post last night and then forgot to publish it. I don’t think I’ve ever done that before, but maybe it just goes to show how tired I was last night.)

The Story: Garend has finally made it to Newland, which was the whole point of this month’s writing—to explore Newland with Garend. Technically, he’s outside of Newland, because he has to be evaluated first to be allowed into Newland. But I’m already in completely uncharted waters now, so this should be a fun rest of the month.

Total word count: 12,136