They say in chess you've got to kill the queen and then you've made it/oh how do you?

[hawkwing_lb]

No, words were not achieved on Thursday. Not on "Dreamdark", anyway. No, I still have not managed to hit 3500 words in a day. I have, however, managed to roll past the 10,000 word mark total.

One-twelfth finished. Let us not be optimistic: remember, we have reached this far before and failed at the test; we have reached 70% finished and failed at the final hurdle. The odds are against finishing.

Right, odds. I'm going to beat you. Only 90,000 words to go!


Progress, Friday 16 December 2005:

"Dreamdark, or, the Confused-Title Story"

New words: 1908
Previous words: 8284
Total relevent words: 10,193
Old-and-now-irrelevant-but-I'm-still-counting-them words: c. 20,000
Total words: c. 30,193
Estimated words required: 120,000
Words left (#1): 89,817
Words left (#2): 109,817
Unpleasant things that characters were subjected to: Tamar is talking to her mother. Ye gods, there are some real problems in that family. Elise is forced to do embroidery. Embroidery is Evil.

The real "Dreamdark":

10,193 / 120,000 (8.5%)

"Dreamdark" and Ye Olde and Abandonned Drafte:

30,192 / 120,000 (24.0%)

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words1: 250 (other project)
word2: 1107 (Dreamdark)
words3: 800 (Dreamdark)
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PS: I have finally kicked the rain! There was sunshine! Through a window, but still! Sunshine!