I'm back, trying to write to now 50,000 hopefully by the end of March. Of course, I have a head start of about 18K words from January.

The first challenge was to write 30K words by the end of January. I made it to 18.6K words and stopped about a week short of the end of January realizing that I had made a mistake somewhere. The “hero” of my story had done something that was easily explained. I had to go find the error and explain why everything had happened.

By the time I'm ready to show people the copy, this won't happen at 18.6K but somewhere else, probably in the low 20K area.

So I added a thousand words today, as well as leaving a snarky comment about the death of the Rocky Mountain News on the media blog.

I'm getting sleepy. The morning started, as it often does when I write, by waking in the pre-dawn with an idea rattling around that demanded to be put into words. So, I'm short sleep and still need to write another blog entry. Uggh!