I have had a completely inspired week! I continued to work on my Water & The Bad Boy short story I started in April and after not knowing how it was going to end I found a great ending that didn't compromise the characters. So now I've completed my first thing for The End Is Nigh challenge. I was so enthused by that story, the quality of my writing on it and the buzz from finishing that on my Friday off I began work on my second short story. I was just as pleased with the quality of writing on Water & Science Fiction and have already added another 2000 words.

We're halfway through the 100 x 100 challenge and I've already had a twinge of sadness thinking about what will happen after it's over. To mark the halfway point we're embarking on another 5000 in 5 marathon. Except that Merrilee and I have been fairly regularly writing more than 1000 words a day so it was suggested we try for 7,500 in 5. Hell, I'm game. In fact it has now spawned the following marathons to punch up our word count during 100 x100.

Day 50-54 = 7,500 in 5
Day 75-79 = 7,500 in 5
Day 96-100 = 10,000 in 5

Now what a way that would be to finish out the challenge. I can't wait!


Days Writing: 50

Total Words To Date: 40,299

Average Words Per Day: 822 (733)

High Word Count: 2,155 words on 6th August

Days Missed: 2 (8)*

Days Remaining: 50

Projected Total: 82,243 (73,284)


*The number in brackets is the days I've missed including my Friday's off. Though I wrote 1,008 words this Friday because of my fabulously inspired week. I'm also going to Scotland for 10 days from next weekend and it will be a holiday from writing as well.