So far this year, I’ve done something I’ve never been able to do in past years: get ahead of the word total. By the end of Friday, I was supposed have 5001 words, but I’d hit 5004 by Thursday afternoon. I knew that yesterday would be a bust – I was going to a craft show – so I wanted to get ahead of the game. Which I did. Woo!
My experience has been that I can bang out the 1667 daily count in about an hour and a half, but I was really lucky that I had the morning of Day 1 off, and all of Day 2. Day 2 was the first write-in for the North Bay group, and I went out and got stuff accomplished there as well. Now I have to find out how well I can write at night – I like this feeling of being ahead or up-to-speed, and I don’t want to squander it.
The story itself is coming along nicely. There was an electrocution scene I’m not sure is entirely accurate or technically possible, but now is not the time to hunt down an expert to ask if it’s possible to run a live current through metal floor plating and only affect people who are wearing footgear with steel toes, or some such other nonsense. Not important. What’s important is that I got rid of the bad guys in one fell swoop. So there.