Word count: 17,680

I was surprised that I managed close to 2000 words today. Besides the fact that I got home from work late, took my time, and squeezed in a new episode of Heroes, I expected to write a thousand words at most before going to bed.

That is, complete a single scene. Not a difficult goal for any given day. So far, I’ve been aiming to get a single scene to be about 1,000 words. This particular scene, possibly one of the most important in the book took an interesting – and I hope, touching – direction about half way through, and I decided to let it run through to completion. So by the end of the scene, it was close to 2,000 words. Most likely I will let it stand alone as its own chapter.

It’s great when your subconscious gives you these great ideas that had never occurred to you before sitting down to write.