Happy January! I hope your new year has gotten off to a great start! I was so determined to kick off the new year with good writing habits...eh. It's been all right. I've gotten a chapter done in this first half of the first month, but it's not like it's the longest chapter ever.
So recently, I posted about how I was worried about going over the suggested word count for an anthology submission. Because life would be boring without variety, now I'm worried about not hitting the minimum word count for this novella. ARGH. I'm dutifully following the outline I crafted, hitting all the points I want to hit, but that number in the bottom left-hand corner doesn't seem to be growing at the same pace.
As I was looking over my outline around November (according to Google Drive's "last edited" line), I thought something was missing. I added in another scene to balance things out, yet I wasn't 100% convinced I should write it. Now it's looking like I'll *have* to, so I've been brainstorming on ways to make it not seem like an afterthought.
I'm sure at a certain point I'll do what I did for the short story and just turn the stupid display off so it's not making me (as) crazy. For now, I'm just going to keep plugging away and see where I land at the end. It'll work out one way or another, and if I have to go back and elaborate on certain scenes, so be it. But really, you'd think I'd be better at estimating by now! Maybe that should be a goal for next year....
It hasn't bothered me of late, but I've definitely had to turn the word count off before. I also used to have a regular discrepancy between my outline and actual word count. I write much shorter chapters than I used to think I wrote. LOL!
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