Fast Fiction

Today, instead of writing in one of those places made for drinking coffee, I went and wrote in one of those places designed to hold books (not a bookshelf). Fellow wrimo (and yinzer), Ron, set up a write-out at the Valley Plaza branch of the LA Public Library. It’s a brand spankin’ new building with a swell little meeting room where they let us have coffee (home-made).

I got about 4K in for the day, so I’m in a pretty good position. You can check the full status spreadsheet on the left if you’re really curious. I need 15K more and my calculations say that I need about 10 more hours of work in order to achieve that. I figure I’ll do about 3 or 4 hours on Saturday in Pasadena and then maybe sneak out on Sunday to write out by myself for a bit (not a public event) so I can knock back 5-8K. Then it’ll be a matter of tying up the story with a neat bow on Monday or Tuesday. My saving grace is that I don’t have class on Tuesday night.

time..running tally..words…words/minute
5:00…..31,451…....290…..19.33
5:15…..31,970…....519…..34.60
5:45…..32,428…....458…..30.53
6:15…..32,689…....261…..17.40
6:30…..33,383…....694…..46.27
6:45…..33,680…....297…..19.80
7:00…..34,340…....660…..44.00
7:15…..34,581…....241…..16.07
7:30…..35,055…....474…..31.60
7:45…..35,175…....120…...8.00