I created this mini-poster at work (and did a similar one about painting for my best friend). Another plus about my job.
(Click on the image to make it larger for easier reading.)
According to the Humber School for Writers, which offers a correspondence course for fiction writers (hey, that's me now!), a participant needs to produce 300 pages for the program. That's ten pages a week -- 3000 words -- which over the course of 30 weeks (7 months) results in 85,000 words. Since I plan on having a first draft already written (trust me, first drafts are SO rough, they can't be submitted), that simple timetable for the course shows me I can have that first draft completed by the time my session of the correspondence course begins in September (assuming I am accepted, that is).
The characters are already taking on a life of their own and I haven't "officially" started writing the book. Just this morning, during my yoga practice, I had to stop and write down a scene. That's my conflict: Yoga is so good for my creativity but on the other hand, I'm not supposed to be thinking during yoga. Ah, well, it's a conflict I'm happy to live with.
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