The writing of Skarlet started on February 22, 2008, with 390 words. That week I wrote just

under 5,300 words.
I set myself weekly targets, and complete my "worksheet" (see right) each day. Weekly targets work better for me than daily ones. If I had a daily 1,500 words target, say, and I missed a day, I'd be frustrated. But with a weekly goal of between 5,000 and 10,000 words, it doesn't matter if I miss a day. I can always catch up.
I missed a few days writing during that first month. But I always caught up because I aimed for weekly totals and not daily ones. I wrote 12,313 the second week; more than 9,000 words on each of the other two weeks of the first month. That amounted to 36,305 words for the month. The second month of writing resulted in more than 45,000 words.
I finished the first draft on April 26 with 2,753 words. I revised a little in the following days, but then took some time out, focusing on other projects. The manuscript was presented to Snowbooks in September 2008.

© Thomas Emson 2008