I’m not going to make this a habit because I don’t want to attempt to switch too often between “blog writer” and “fiction writer” hats. It doesn’t hurt, but it kills my motivation.

But I had to mark this occasion. Yesterday, I hit 4,300 words, which is just 50 words over my first week goal. It was slow going at first, but I punched out a ton of words Thursday and Friday evenings, and managed to make my goal this first week. I’m rewarding myself at 10,000 words by purchasing Mega Man 9 off the WiiWare channel. But I’ll likely hold the game hostage from myself until after I finish the novel. We’ll see how that goes.

I’ve also finished the first two chapters of the novel. So far, I’m really happy with what I’ve created so far. I can see some spots already that I want to polish up, but I’m forcing myself to wait until after it’s all written to go back and edit.

Only fifteen weeks to go. Fifteen weeks which include holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and my birthday. Yikes.

I’ve moved my novel progress information to my new novel page. You can look it up there. The chart will be updated there, as it was in the previous post before.

Okay. Today includes a birthday party for my son, but then this evening it’s back to writing. Another week, another 4,250 word goal.