Novel wordcount, 5 January 2012

8:44 pm - Thu, Jan 5, 2012: 2 notes

Working through Chapter 11, wordcount 35,529.

First time I’ve had to work on this novel for ages, in between moving house and going on holiday and getting burgled

Getting closer to that magical 40k mark. Magical why? Because that’s - probably - about half way. Mind you, after all the editing and potching that will happen later, who knows where I am.

I don’t pay much heed to horoscopes, but my mum has always been dead keen on the Chinese Years. I’m a monkey, born in 1980, and as such (allegedly) I’m very fickle with my attentions, often starting things but losing interest and moving on if it does not completely absorb me. As such, so I read, “Monkey people should try extra hard in 2012 to stay on track when doing important tasks.”

And that is my new year’s resolution. If you can call it that, it’s more like a resolution for life in general - to be better at finishing things.

So I’m working on two projects this year - this, and working turning a website I run called We Are Cardiff into a documentary. Those projects - and only those. I’ll probably do some other little things, here and there. But those are the biggies.