Goals for today/ goals for my writing

Ok, so still thrilled about yesterday but I want to make sure that I am refocused for today.  I only have to do 250 words today.  That is all.  The only requirement is that it moves the story forward in some way (I can't go back and add sentences to previous scenes.  If I want to do that, it's only after I've finished my writing session with at least 250 new words).  So this is great.

And the latest I will be finished is February.

And I'm dying to know what that would be on book 2: 

Give myself 2 months to plan.  This is way over-generous considering I already know the plot, I just need my sign post list.  But I want to do a real HTTS preparation for it so I don't know how long that will take me. I think a month at the most.  

110,000 words,  250wds/day = 440 days.  250 words is about 2 paragraphs. I don't see why I need to allow any days off since I should always be able to get that and more.  If something comes up so that for whatever reason I can't write a couple paragraphs on a napkin [!!], well, 1 day off won't even be noticeable. (Or I should clarify that having the goal be 250 words/day IS the build in buffer for any missed days).

440 days / 30 = 14.6 months or 15 months.

15 months + 2 months  = 17 months or 1.5 years.

So book 1  is finished in February 2011

Book 2 preplanning is finished April 2011

Book 2 writing is finished July 2012.  Birthday month, Yay me. :)

I'm a little shocked that 250 words/day allows you to write a book in 1.5 years.  I thought it would be 3 years at least.  

So time to re-focus on today's work.  [ok, so why do I need the hyphen?  Does anyone have trouble with refocus?  I keep seeing people put hyphens EVERY time they use the 're' prefix]

anyway, I was talking about focusing on today's words.  So for today, I need 250 words, couple of paragraphs, that move the story forward.