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