Word count: 28,381.

I feel like I’m slowly starting to get back on track with my writing again. It’s been flowing a lot easier for me tonight – and last night as well – than it did for much of last week, so maybe having a bit of time away from it over the weekend wasn’t such a bad thing. Or maybe it’s just that I’m more focused on it, and putting a whole lot more pressure on myself.

I’d really like to be at a point where on Nov 30, I’m writing the final scene of the novel, but somehow I don’t think that will happen. Oh, I’ll have reached 50,000 words, but I think there will need to be more after that. The first 25,000 words have been pretty meandering, but the great thing now is that I think I’ve finally found the middle of the story that will connect the beginning that I wanted with the end that I wanted.

It feels like my writing is getting tighter – in so far as I’m not letting scenes drag on for the sake of increasing the word count – as i realise what i’ve got to cover between where I am and the end of the book. Some of the scenes I’ve written in the last few days have been quite short and to the point. And I’ve made a concerted effort to get a bit of conflict into them as well – that may be lacking from some of the earlier parts of this story.

So overall, i’m feeling pretty good about where I am at the moment with the story. I’ll hit 30,000 words tomorrow night, which will be great, so hopefully I can keep up that momentum.