Writing A Novel - It's Sunday
I woke up at 6:30 this morning and decided to fit some writing in before my partner woke up. I aimed to do four 20 minute Pomodoros. What I actually did was one 20 minute session and one 40 minute session, writing a little over 2,000 words in that time.
This is now chapter two, introducing a new POV character and developing some of the world. It's hard to talk about my aims for the chapters without talking about the actual plot of the novel and I don't want to do that, because talking about "what it's about" always scratches the same dopamine itch as actually writing the thing for me. It feels like having done the writing without doing the writing, and I want to avoid that.
I aimed for this chapter to be 2k words total and it will likely be closer to 4k, but I also aimed for the opening chapter to be 3k and ended up with 6k. I'm hoping that as I get further into this and become more comfortable with these characters that I'll be able to keep the word count down. Otherwise, I'm going to have a big job ahead of me when the draft is done and it's time to edit down to size. But that's fine, I enjoy aggressive cutting in edits, and it's a nice problem to be able to look forward to because it will mean I've actually written the book.