Sean M Elliott’s Theoretikos.com

It hurt.  But I managed to get 50,000 words written through the month of November.  Some interesting facts about them: It’s actually 50,021 words long (by the NaNoWriMo.org counter) or 50,219 (as counted by Google Docs); The word cloud suggests I use the word ‘back’ a lot; Printed, it forms a pile that’s 13.15mm high [...]

I’m around six thousand words behind the daily count and only have seven days to complete the total fifty thousand words. In my case, that’s another twenty thousand words in one week. And being that I have work and family that consume most of my daily time, I really am having to find those gaps, [...]

Observation the first:  Writing 50,000 words in a month is hard. (Corollary the first: Made harder if you have a full time job and family…) Observation the second:  Breaking the task down into 1,000 word bites makes it much easier (After just a week of this, I found I could tear through one thousand words [...]