Last week I was feeling defeated because I knew the 4-day holiday weekend was coming up and I figured I would get nothing written. However, the opposite happened. I wrote thousands of words over Thanksgiving and jumped way ahead on the graph, allowing me to surpass 50,000 words today. I have to give my husband a lot of credit, because he kept himself busy over the weekends and holiday and didn't try to pull me away from my hermitage in the bedroom where I was under the covers and typing away on my laptop.
Thanksgiving was the easiest we've ever had. Since it was just my husband and I, he baked some chicken breasts in the oven, because we didn't want to have to hassle with turkey leftovers, and right about the time they were done baking, I spent maybe 15 minutes preparing the other portions of our meal, we ate while chatting with our daughter over speaker phone, my husband did the dishes, and we were done for the day. It think it took up a grand total of two hours of our time, which allowed me to spend most of the day writing.
This does not mean that my novel is done, obviously. There is still much more to write and many revisions and proof readings before I can even consider publishing it as an ebook. Did you hear that? Yes, I said "proof readings." I'm getting really tired of downloading free ebooks only to find multiple typos on each page. Authors who publish without checking their work are making a bad name for ebooks and making themselves look unprofessional.
It feels so good to be back in the swing of writing daily after having my schedule hijacked for the majority of the year. I want to thank my writing buddies for their knowledge and encouragement: Katharine Swan and achieve1dream.
