As you all know I’ve been working on the Sweat with Sven challenge. I chose A Miss for Mark, the third book in the Parthenon Club, as my Work in Progress for that event. When it started I’d already been at it for over a month.
Let’s look at a few statistics
Words written before the challenge began: 16,548
I was thinking it was 13,000 until a few minutes ago when I realized I’d pulled the number from the wrong place.
Words written in total to date: 78,052
Words written in Mark for the challenge: 61,504
Average words per day during the challenge: 668
This average includes about 20 days when I didn’t write a single word. Taking only days when I actually wrote the number is closer to 850 words a day. It includes a few days when I wrote well over 2,000 words a day.
Average words per day before:447
I did not finish the book, but I got pretty close. On my board meter it says that I’m shooting for 80,000 words, but that’s only to keep me from going way overboard as I am want to do in a rough draft. I figure I only have about 5,000 more words to finish off the last few scenes.
So I didn’t make my 70,000 words in 70 days as per the challenge, and I didn’t make my goal of finishing before Christmas, but I did benefit from having joined the challenge. should I happen to have a rough draft come up while it is going on in the future I’ll do it again. They are already talking about running another one this spring.
Me? I’ll be revising then.
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