Brandi's back!  And kicking out the words.  Good for you Brandi. 

687 today.    This (small fanfare) puts me officially over 50,000 words since May 20th.  

Thursday doldrums.  Becalmed in a sea of possibilities.   544 words.  

Last night I wrote the magic words, "the end". Project is complete at 68k and I'm more relieved that I can say. Polishing up today and tomorrow and then it's off to the agent for her input then on with the next book. 

I must say, I'm finding so much inspiration from seeing everyone's progress here -- keeps me going. yay for Summer Writer's Club!

Congratulations Gwenyffer.  I'm envious.  I'm 110,000 words into this monstrosity and still a long way to go.  I can only guess how long its going to take me to make a second pass.  

But yes, indeed, I raise my glass of thick black coffee to all the Summer Writers.  Cheers!

Hi all,

Been plugging along. I'm at 22,323 words since the beginning of this.    Thanks to all of you for inspiring me through your updates and progress.  Keep it up!

Steve

1,456 today.

1,110 yesterday.

Still having fun.

Your progress continues to inspire me. You guys are amazing! Here's to endings and middles and taverns and all of our writing adventures!

--edited by Brandi Larsen on 8/11/2013, 1:04 PM--

So, I'm late to the party, but I am hoping I can still RSVP. I wrote 3787 words between yesterday and today, and at that rate, I just might be able to swing 53,000 words by Labor Day . . . at least, I can try.

Well done, everyone. Getting your updates about your word count is DEFINITELY inspiring me to make a commitment to my writing as the summer draws to a close. Thank you and keep it up!

Lucy Silag

Book Country Community and Engagement Manager

--edited by Lucy Silag on 8/11/2013, 4:27 PM--

Hello, all. 

 I did it.   Today I hit 53,091 words.

Here are the stats for you number crunchers:   12 weeks have gone by, so that means 4,425 words per week, and 623 words per day.  My best day was 1205 words.  My worst was 197.   I had five days where I was below 500.  I had four were I was above a thousand.  My best week was 5305.   All of this is by way of saying that while my individual days and weeks weren't anything to crow about, I was a marvel of consistency.  In fact, during the last 12 weeks, I worked on this project every single day.   There were other projects going on, but regardless of what else I did, I put in my time on this, too.

It's little enough to boast about, but yes, I'm pleased.  My monstrous novel has grown from just under 58,000 words to just over 111,000. 

But I'm not leaving the club.   My new goal is to try and actually finish this rough draft by Sept 2.  I believe it's doable, but I'll have to stay on track.  Three weeks, at my summer pace so far, means about 13,000 words.  I'm not always great at predicting, but I think that's pretty close to how much remains to be written.  That would make it 124,000 pages all told, which for me is enormous, a marathon novel.  But, 90% done.  In marathon terms, that means I have about two-and-a-half miles to go.  Painful.  But the end is in sight. 

I think 124000 pages would be a lot for anyone.

I came up a touch short of 500 words today, but I got some solid writing done so I feel good about it.

Ha!  Sometimes it feels like 124,000 pages!  

I hope it won't to readers. 

Forgot to log in yesterday but I'm still here. 

Tuesday:  549 words

Wednesday:  601 words

Cheerio.

Thursday.  Busy day.  Not for writing, of course, but I did manage 586 words this morning.  

Day 86: 296 words written

Day 87: Didn't write a word as I went to bed early due to the late night I had on Tuesday. 

Day 88: 303 words written. 

Full disclosure, 56k (now I'm having flashbacks to my early days on the internet) wasn't all for the SWC.  But it's all been since sometime in late January, so I still feel like I've accomplished something.

Tonight I accomplished close to 600 words and finished off the last major scene in the book.  From here on out it's just some quick wrapping up, then revision time (which will hopefully mean more chapters worthy of posting here!).

I think I forgot to log in yesterday.   620 for Saturday.    546 for Sunday.    4,172 for the week.  

Total for summer:   57,263. 

Didn't get quite as far as I'd hoped, but only about a day behind my projection.  Not sure if I'll finish the rough before Sept 2nd.  It'll be close.  

Day 90: Wrote 270 words

Day 91: Wrote 403 words

My heroine is free! Though not out of trouble. 

Only added about 300 words tonight, but a lot of it was cleaning up some rough thoughts I had put down previously, so I actually wrote more than that.  Some of it was just replacing other words.

I might have to take some time off actual writing and do some planning.  I know the broad strokes of how I want to wrap things up, but now that the time has come to write it I've discovered that I hadn't worked out the details (like the fact that my main character disappeared for months to do his adventuring and probably can't just show back up with no explanation .

Wednesday.   609 words.