You’ll notice the nifty little status bar that my genius brother has coded up for me. He’s added this feature to the website to help me keep track of my writing goals. He’s got some pretty neat tools on his website.

And now I can actually use the status bar since I actually did some writing last night. I left the phone at home, and I averaged just over a thousand words an hour, so it was a pretty decent night. I feel like I’m actually moving toward writing a book! Just have to do this 78 more times before the end of July.

So I’ve got a little momentum going. Now I just need to keep it up. I like the whole goal setting thing; it keeps me focused on finishing the book and not so much on “Is this a good word choice right here?” I don’t worry about it. I just write. I’ll figure out word choices later when I come back for revision. This is exactly what I need to keep me going on this sort of thing. And of course, I don’t want to be the target of rotten produce on August 1st.

Thanks for tuning in!