Day 8 (a little late)

Missed my daily goal of 3000 for the first time since I started this. Only wrote 2200 words.

I'd wanted to get at least to 2500 so that I'd have hit the 30k mark in 8 days, two days ahead of schedule but my brain turned to mush and I found myself just throwing words and the paper and that's not helping anything. So I tossed in the towel for the day and went to the movies.

OT--Saw Sandra Bullock & Melissa McCarthy in HEAT. Hilarious movie. I highly recommend it if your into the buddy-cop, action, comedy genre. Lots of fun.

As for the writing, having reached the 1st third of the project this stoppage is not unusual for me. Typically, around this point its time for me to go back and review my outline and check it against what I've written and make adjustment as necessary--typically the scenes are right and in the right order, but I need to add detail, drop clues, and clean up how and what information is being presented, including making sure the emotional on each character is evident.

so Day 9 will probably be of modest word count gain as I review and edit what's gone before and set myself up for where the stories going for the 2nd third.