The outline is complete. I’ve now bolted down the first words in my second attempt at writing a novel (first attempt was for NaNoWriMo, and as far as I’m concerned, doesn’t actually count).

So now, I need to be held accountable for actually getting this sorry scrap-heap of nonsense into an actual, honest-to-goodness palatable work of fiction. And you can help! Or just sit there on the sidelines and watch as I go down in an all too-unremarkable blaze of pain and suffering.

If it worked correctly, there should be a chart embedded below. My goal is to write approximately 68-70K words in 16 weeks (roughly a full novel by the end of the year). This puts me at a weekly goal of about 4,250 words. I will update my count daily, and as each week passes, I hope to keep the blue line (my word count) at least marginally above the red line (my weekly goal). Fun, right? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Chart moved to novel page

If at the end of any week (for reference, my weeks are measured as Sunday through Saturday) I’m not at my goal for the week, shoot me an email (in the sidebar on the right), or leave a comment telling me to get off my sorry ass and get to writing. I swear I won’t get mad. Maybe.

See you in December!