Word count: 36,704.

Yes, that’s right! More than 4,000 words written today! I’m so stoked about that! I’m now officially back on track for reaching 50,000. In fact, a little ahead now! I could get to the target by Nov 30th with the daily average of 1,667 words.

But screw that! I’ve come this far, I’ll have to see now if I can get past 50,000!

Ok, so anyone noting the time that I’m writing this – 2:14am – will probably say that I didn’t do all 4,000 in one day … but I haven’t gone to bed yet, so I’m counting it all towards day 22. Not that it really matters anyway.

Probably the most impressive thing about this word count is that I didn’t really start writing until about 4:30pm this afternoon. I worked half the day, didn’t get home till about 3pm, and there was a lot of fart-arsing about and procrastinating before I actually sat down and put finger to keyboard.

And the other thing that I managed to squeeze into that time – around 7pm when I was having dinner, was I sat down and planned out the rest of the scenes that lead up to the end of the book. It seems to flow well, and there’s are a few interesting twists in there that I wasn’t really expecting …. or in some case, wasn’t expecting I could work out how to fit them in.

So already, I’ve completed two of the scenes I planned to do, scratched one because my protagonist decided he didn’t want to do that, and wrote another unexpected one to create a bit of conflict and explore some additional themes of the story … not a bad friggin’ day of writing at all!