Objectives, Death Row Dogs, And Houses on The Move

It was another successful week on the writing front, as I finished chapter two, started chapter three and reached my target of 3,000 words for the week to Friday. I am sitting at just over 9,600 words, which feels great. I can’t wait to clock over 10,000 words this weekend. ALthough the studying has not gone as well, as I keep get distracted by writing. Can’t say I am too upset by that, but must do better.  

Death Row Dog AKA Candy is settling into the family quite nicely. Her and Pooch have a lovely time playing together, and the eldest tornado child wants both to be sleeping in his room with him.

The house moving is a step closer as we have verbally accepted an offer on the land, and next week we will sign the paper work. We are starting to book in the various contractors, with the first date we need confirmed being the septic tank/water crew, as they need to be finished before the house moves on.

Inordinately Pleased With Oneself

On Friday last week, I set about on my latest writing crusade. By the end of the week, I was happy with progress, and put down some aims for the coming week. By the end of the week(well almost) I have achieved two aims, but the ones I haven’t completed I am not too unhappy about.

Aims for this week:

• Work through next module and start on one after that for course work. [Done]
• Finish Chapter two, and get a good start on Chapter three of A Darkening Dawn [Not Done]
• Bonus to feel really virtuous – Finish Chapter three and start Chapter four. [Not Done]
• Word count aim: 3000 by Friday [Done]

I reached my word count aim, and discovered that chapter two is going to be much longer than chapter one. It is three and half thousand words and only half way there! Having not got this far into a story in ages it is hard to judge. But hay…

So aims for next week:

• Finish next module.
• Word count aim: 3000 words by Friday. Bringing total word count to 9000 words.

As for the EIC, she has been writing a children’s story aimed at our eldest boys age group. She is pleased because he liked it.

A Good Weekend

I am very pleased with the weekend’s effort. I finished my assignment, a week before due date. Usually (as in pretty much every case previously) assignments are finished very early the morning of the day they are due.

I wrote just over 3000 words on the new novel, finishing chapter one, and getting a good start on number two. I am feeling quite positive about the writing, and I am looking to not good too bogged down in extraneous fiddling.  Although I already need a map, and as I can’t draw, I will need to find some sort of free online mapping programme that can produce a half way decent map

Aims for this week:

• Work through next module and start on one after that for course work.
• Finish Chapter two, and get a good start on Chapter three of A Darkening Dawn
• Bonus to feel really virtuous – Finish Chapter three and start Chapter four.
• Word count aim: 3000 by Friday

A Productive Two Nights

Friday night and tonight have proved to be productive.

I have finished over half assignment one for the web writing course I am doing. It is due next friday, so thats good going for me to have started it a week out  

I have also made a start on a new novel to be called at this stage “A Darkening Dawn“. More details to come as I write [Isn't that a positive statement!] I finished chapter one at 2500 words. Which leads me to a question? How long is your average chapter, or book length? Just pondering, as it seemed like the right length and all, but I don’t know.