3,000 words in the past 2 days

And it’s late tonight, but I don’t have anything until 10 am.  Just another update on things.

So, I’ve been writing about 1,500 words a day for the past four or five days, and the momentum has definitely been building up.  I feel that I’m doing really well now.  I got in today’s 1,100 or so words in about 45 minutes, if you take out all of the things I did in between that interrupted some of my time.  If you include those, you’re looking at maybe an hour and a half.

So things are going well in this novel!  I’m still kind of worried that the end is a lot further than I’d thought it would be, but I have a whole month to finish this monster–and almost a week of that is going to be free time.  I don’t have exams until the last two days of finals’ week.  I’ll probably be working mornings on those days, but I’ll have the whole afternoon free.  Yay!

I’ve been doing almost 1,500 to 2,000 words a day under this new 1,000 word daily goal, but I think that after this novel is finished, I’m going to go back down to 500 words.  In fact, while I’m studying in Jordan, I may be too busy to write hardly at all.  Learning the language and figuring out the culture are the top priorities, and writing tends to be very anti-social.  I learned that the hard way by trying to write over at the capitol house.

Gamila and Jakeson said something really funny at the writing meeting today.  They said that I’m turning into Aneeka 2.0.  I’m writing so much that when it comes time to write a paper or do some other major project, I’ll end up doing it on the last day and staying up all night just to partially complete it.  Well…I’d like to think I’m a little more committed to school than Aneeka was. 😉 And I am still on top of my classes (except for Arabic–but no one is on top of Arabic, except that one really shy girl who never talks to us and always gets the highest scores on all the tests).  But yeah, I’ve got two papers coming up and they aren’t going to be pleasant.  I’d much rather be writing in my novel.

And…it’s late and I’m dead tired.  So I’m going to bed.  Goodnight!