Let's Try This One More Time

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett

In 2008, I started this blog with big goals and even bigger dreams.

It’s now 2013. Five years later. The novels I started have been abandoned and sent to their deaths. The dream, however, lives on.

I am at work on a new novel. This time I’ve reached farther than I ever have before (56,000 words-- woo!), I’m much more confident in my voice and in the story I’m trying to tell and I’m committed.

Starting April 1, I’ll resume this blog to monitor my progress as I race towards the finishing line. The rules for this blog remain the same:

1. I will only post when I’ve actually doe some writing. It doesn’t matter how many words I write, but each post will have an update bar below it to show my progress. And, of course, unless there’s been progress, what’s the point of posting?

2. I aim to write 800 words a day. I might do it in spurts or I could do it in one sitting. But the aim is to write 800 words every day.

Why 800? Well, for one, it’s a nice number. There isn’t the pressure of that massive 1,000 and it’s still more than 500. It isn’t that hard a goal to achieve. Secondly, I’ve got this nice meter which is tracking how many words I’m writing and since 80,000 is my goal, an 800-word average means I’m writing 1% of my book every single day.

Ready to begin? I know I am.

(P.S. I did finish that book referenced below that I started in 2010. It was a memoir. I wrote 100,000 words. They were crap. I threw it away.)