PseudoWriMo update #1

So, "PseudoWriMo" (as I am calling it) is going ridiculously well! So well that perhaps I am a little afraid of how it is going to crash and burn in the near future?

I've finished with Chapter 4 and am already a page and a half into Chapter 5. The Shift covers almost 2000 years of time, from when Legolas is born until just before the War of the Ring... so it's kind of bizarre to write that Legolas is born in chapter 3, grows from infant to toddler in chapter 4, and is 15 in chapter 5. But I am pushing myself along just so I can meet my deadline in December!

If I can write 15000 words by the end of the month, I can (at an average of 2500 words/chapter) complete 6 whole chapters by the end of it, pushing me to chapter 10. By the end of December (because PseudoWriMo pretty much will become PseudoWriMos so I can finish!) I can make it through to the end of chapter 15, which is all I have mapped out at this point. Chapter 15 is already scripted (you will understand why soon enough! And by 'soon' I really mean 'within a year or so'), so really I just need to make the intervening chapters something of interest, right?

Anyway, with a final word count goal of 2500 today, I am at 2859! Perhaps I will push myself a little farther and write more of chapter 5, because I'm on a roll tonight!

More soon enough. Enjoy your weekend!