Counting my chickens... can't help myself :)

so with my 19 scenes (that I think will balloon out to more... although can they become twice that??... I guess I'll see). Anyway, with those 19 scenes, I started to work on the first one yesterday. I only got about 250 words. I was having trouble diving into the scene. Hopefully it was just because I was tired and my Muse was tired (and unfocused due to being in brainstorm/plotting mode). So today I try again.

and to write it out, the deadline to finish the story is March 28th (when I go on vacation). That gives me a month to write 30 scenes/30,000 words. 1000 wds/day. Hopefully!!! hopefully, hopefully I can start writing 1500-2000 a day and give myself a cushion for the days when I can't write at all. It'll be like a mini-Nano.

And imagine it! An actual finished novel at the end of it. A novel that I actually like. That I don't have to say "what the heck am I going to do with this other then hide it in my locked desk drawer or use it is as a doorstop?" Because the story is completely fine. It is not written well but there is tons and tons of plot and things happening. How can that not be saved? How can I not sell that? Now, that's not to say when I write the end of the actual series that I will still be able to say that. But right now, I am totally jinxing myself and saying it where no one is going to see it anyway. And I am going to dance around... cause I have a very promising rough, rough draft in process. Woo-hoo to me.

I'm going to go make myself a mug of hot tea and get lost in story again. Because this scene needs to be saved instead of rushed through. I need to make it flow and picture the actual scene and make it a worthwhile scene. And I need to do it today. Maybe even get two in today.

I'm so excited, Can you tell???