Welcome everyone to day 11 of the 28-day writing challenge. Today I was called into work. There’s a place where I do some part-time on-call work, so my time today was taken up was more than usual, which happens sometimes.
My time writing today was spent doing more work on the blueprint and the writing plan for chapter 13. I have taken longer on the writing plan for this chapter than usual, so it seems like getting behind.
Actually, I’m just something that I would normally do more of later; after the initial rough draft was done. I do feel that I will be able to get caught up again.
Back and Forth
This seems to be a pattern here. I get a day behind and then get caught up; although now I’m probably a day and a half behind on the writing goals. But on the planning goals, I’m doing well, so I’m confident that I will get caught up again.
I think that I might have the rough draft of the new chapters for this book done by Thursday. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Then after that, I will put in my older material for chapters one through seven. I may decide to rearrange the order of chapters later, we’ll see.
But that’s pretty exciting! By Thursday, I would have written up to chapter 16, which is the last chapter that I have planned for the book. Then Friday, and perhaps the next writing day, which would be Monday- day 15, I would have all those previous chapters copied over into the new document.
What is a Book?
To be clear, my definition of a “book” in this case is the rough draft and the first round of editing done. After that, it is just however much more polishing you want to do to keep making your book better. But by this point (the 28 days), you have an adequate book. In many cases, you have an excellent book and one that perhaps is ready to be published.
So anyway, after day 15 I have another 13 days to be able to work more on this book and to keep polishing it and keep planning some things, At some point, I need to start working on a cover, and I will let you follow me along in that process.
Well, it’s always good to talk with you. I hope that you have a good day. Remember, YOU CAN WRITE A BOOK!