June 2015 Junowrimo Wk 4 – WritingProject: Countdown #1 and WYDM – Update #4

Last 200 words: 

What could I do? My eyes slid to the gas stove and the matches I knew were in the drawer. I could blow this whole cabin down. Take them down with me.

Unfortunately, I didn’t know who could be around and didn’t want to hurt any by passers. I still didn’t know who could be outside. I heard another knock, more insistent than before. I thought about peeking out the curtains but then it’s possible that they could see me too. I bit my lip. I’d have to peek in the peep hole and hope I didn’t make too much noise getting to it.

I slid off my shoes not trusting that they’d be quiet on the hardwood. I got up and slowly made my way over to the door. My heart thudded panicky in my chest wondering if these people would be friend or foe. There were little creaks from the floorboards thanks to my weight but after pausing I realized they didn’t notice. I shifted my weight testing the board in front of me before putting my full weight on it. 

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Week’s Total WC: 3,300
Total Story WC: 22,044

• Skipped the check in last Friday since I hadn’t written much and decided to finish off on the last day of the month.
• Notice all the zeros? lol I ended up feeling a bit burnt out and fell into a lull and got stuck with writing. 
• Still enjoy working on two stories at a time so I’ll probably do it with July Campnano.
• Unfortunately I am not able to catch up with my word count goals but I’m not too worried since I’ll work on it again in July. 
• Handwriting takes me longer to write than typing but I like how it flows on paper better.

So I didn’t make my overall word count goal of 60k but I didn’t do too bad. I’ve made a little over 40k which is better than I thought but less than I had expected. It looks like 40k is something I can consistently do during a month. Anything more than that is pushing it for me.

I could have pushed myself to do at least 50k but I decided against it since I’ll be working on at least one of the projects during July. I’m pretty sure I’ll work on Countdown #1 but not sure if I’ll stay with WYDM?! since I feel like I need to plot it out better since it took a weird turn. lol

In the mean time, in July I’ll be going on vacation for a week so my expected turn out will be less than I’ll expect. Initially, I thought 25k for the word goal but I’ve since lowered it to 20k because I think I’m going to spend more time plotting for my other story during my vacation and I’m not going to track those words. Writing takes no vacation! lol

My goal is to finish Countdown #1 so I can work on the other books in the series. Then my second project will most likely be plotting. Not sure which project I’ll work on. I may focus on one or two for plotting, depends if I get stuck…either way I’m excited to be nearly done with the first draft!

I’ll probably run through it once or twice and fill in any plot holes the best I can before I move on to the next book. Then I’ll let it sit and focus on a different story. 🙂

Did you guys do Junowrimo? If so, fantastic! How did you do?

Other Updates:

Update #4
Update #3
Update #2
Update #1