Okay, this page is mostly for me. It keeps track of my day-to-day writing progress. Mostly I want to see if there are any trends.

Friday, February 24: 606 words

Thursday, February 23: 391 words

Wednesday, February 22: 96 words

Tuesday, February 21: -52 words (polishing)

Monday, February 20: 678 words

Sunday, February 19: 949 words on Babbage

Saturday, February 18: Send off emails and requested material to agents and editors

Friday, February 10 – 17: Polishing queries and manuscript for submission to agents and editors. There was a writer’s meeting in there as well as Valentine’s Day

Thursday, February 9: 512 words

Wednesday, February 8: 523 words

Tuesday, February 7: 641 words on Babbage

Monday, February 6: Revising Tarot as per agent comments

Sunday, February 5: 230 words

Saturday, February 4: 527 words on climax

Monday, January 30 – Friday, February 3: Plotting out Three Act Structure of Novel

Friday, January 27 – Sunday, January 29: Packing for camp

Thursday, January 26: 393 words

Wednesday, January 25: Cut 708 words and replaced with 608 words

Tuesday, January 24: Blogging (0 words that count)

Monday, January 23: 67 words and writing group

Sunday, January 22: 1794 words

Saturday, January 21: research

Friday, January 20: 221 words

Thursday, January 19: 221 words

Wednesday, January 18: 1183 words. Switched to 3rd POV. So essentially I started over.

Tuesday, January 17: 79 words

Monday, January 16: no writing

Sunday, January 15: 439 words

Saturday, January 14: no writing

Friday, January 13: 705 words

Thursday, January 12: 548 words

Wednesday, January 11: 402 words

Saturday – Tuesday, January 7-10: School word and Disneyland

Friday, January 6: -308 words (cutting a major character from the novel)

Wednesday-Thursday, January 4-5: No writing, taking care of a sick daughter

Tuesday, January 3: 280 words

Monday, January 2: 1511 words

Wednesday-Sunday, December 28 – January 1: Year end movie

Tuesday, December 27: Line edits to Steampunk Shakespeare

Friday-Monday, December 24-26: Christmas celebrations (slept in)

Friday, December 23: 317 words

Thursday, December 22: Yule

Monday-Wednesday, December 18-21: Revising Steampunk Shakespeare and critiquing

Saturday morning, December 17: 352 words

Thursday-Friday, December 15-16: Rested

Wednesday, December 14: 212 words

Tuesday, December 13: Sleep

Monday, December 12: Writing Group Xmas Party

Sunday, December 11: 605 words

Saturday, December 10: 478 words

Friday, December 9: 515 words

Thursday, December 8: Break

Wednesday, December 7: -16 words (slashing poor text)

Tuesday, December 6: 295 words

Monday, December 5: 525 words

Sunday, December 4: 710 words

Saturday Night, December 3: 323 words

Friday-Saturday, December 2-3: Daughter woke up early, 0 words

Thursday, December 1: 723 words

Wednesday, November 30: 417 words

Tuesday, November 29: Daughter woke up crazy early, 0 words

Monday, November 28: 239 words

Sunday, November 27: 582 words

Saturday, November 26: Researching Solomon’s Key

Friday, November 25: Turkey Coma

Thursday, November 24: Cooking for Thanksgiving

Wednesday, November 23: 193 words

Tuesday, November 22: 469 words

Monday, November 21: 526 words

Sunday, November 20: 713 words

Saturday, November 19: 733 words

Friday, November 18: 357 words

Thursday, November 17: 589 words

Wednesday, November 16: 69 words (adding in character traits)

Tuesday, November 15: 0 words (working on character traits)

Monday, November 14: -62 words (cutting and revising)

Sunday, November 13: 1118 words

Saturday, November 12: 619 words

Friday, November 11: Edits on Steampunk Shakespeare

Thursday, November 10: 457 words

Tuesday-Wednesday, November 8-9: Signing up for SDSU conference and prepping pages to submit

Monday, November 7: 311 words

Sunday, November 6: 320 words

Friday-Saturday, November 4-5: revamping blog site

Thursday, November 3: only 38 words, but damn proud of this chapter

Wednesday, November 2: -1429 words (yes I cut a lot, but I finally worked out the kinks in this chapter.)

Tuesday, November 1: 152 words

Friday-Monday, October 28-31: preparing for Halloween (sadly no writing)

Thursday, October 27: 783 words on Babbage

Wednesday, October 26: Planned writing, but then worked up a Tarot query for an agent’s contest.

Tuesday, October 25: Off track (I had to sleep)

Monday, October 24: 161 words (back on track)

Thursday – Sunday, October 20-23: Not sure what happened here. I accomplished edits and resubmission on Steampunk Shakespeare short story. But that’s all.

Wednesday, October 19: 328 pages

Tuesday, October 18: 494 pages (mostly character bibles)

Monday, October 17: 246 words

Sunday, October 16: 77 words

Saturday, October 15: 0 words (daughter woke up crazy early)

Friday, October 14: 24 words (meager but at least I’m writing)

Thursday, October 13: 0 words (no excuse)

Wednesday, October 12: 142 words back on Babbage

Tuesday, October 11: 53 words (editing steampunk Shakespeare tale for anthology)

Monday, October 10: spruced up short story and submitted to magazine

Saturday-Sunday, October 8-9: Edited short story and sent off to Amazon Kindle Singles

Friday, October 7: 1384 words (almost to my pre-restart word count)

Thursday, October 6: -14 words (cut more than I wrote)

Wednesday, October 5: Disneyland (no writing today)

Tuesday, October 4: 584 words

Monday, October 3: 49 words (heavy edits on yesterday’s write)

Sunday, October 2: 1274 words

Saturday, October 1: 888 words

Friday, September 30: 575 words

Thursday, September 29: 678 words on Babbage, plus 16 words on Hand Soup story

Wednesday, September 28: -63 (revising)

Tuesday, September 27: Slept in

Monday, September 26: 928 words

Sunday, September 25: 550 words

Saturday, September 24: No writing…garage sale

Friday, September 23: 885 words on the new Babbage

Sunday-Thursday, September 18-22: Went to revise Babbage and had to rethink the whole story. Went back to the original points that mad me want to write it in the first place. Totally restarted the story. Happy with the outcome, but a difficult change.

Saturday, September 17: Sent out QUERIES for Tarot; cut 358 words from long Babbage chapter, then wrote 182 on the next chapter.

Friday, September 16: 30 words on Babbage

Monday-Thursday 10-15: gathered information on potential agents

Sunday, September 11: 86 words on Babbage

Wednesday-Saturday, September 7-10: gathered information on potential agents and wrote queries

Tuesday, September 6: typed in 100 pages of revision and FINISHED Tarot.

Monday, September 5: typed in 128 pages of revisions to Tarot

Sunday, September 4: typed in 97 pages of revisions to Tarot

Saturday, September 3: FINISHED revising Tarot

Friday, September 2: 15 pages final revise Tarot

Thursday, September 1: 28 pages final revise Tarot

Wednesday, August 31: 17 pages final revise Tarot

Tuesday, August 30: revised first chapter of Tarot (I hope for the final time)

Monday, August 29: -376 words (slicing down a 10 page chapter)

Sunday, August 28: +302 words on one chapter, then -176 cutting from another for a net of +126

Saturday, August 27: took morning off to catch up on item writing (my choice, no grumbling)

Friday, August 26: 21 pages final revise Tarot

Thursday, August 25: 21 pages final revise Tarot

Wednesday, August 24: -3 words Tarot (revising) and 34 words on Babbage (also revising)

Tuesday, August 23: skipped writing for schoolwork (grumble)

Monday, August 22: revising printed pages on Tarot

Sunday, August 21: 73 words on Tarot (fixing opening and penultimate chapter)

Saturday, August 20: 19 pages final revise Tarot

Friday, August 19: 59 words (much needed revision)

Thursday, August 18: 19 pages final revise Tarot

Wednesday, August 17: -113 (cut much needed grist)

Tuesday, August 16: 28 pages final revise Tarot

Monday, August 15: 518 words

Sunday, August 14: 82 words (my own fault, I slept in, so I only got 15 minutes of writing time)

Saturday, August 13: 22 pages final revise Tarot

Friday, August 12: 23 pages final revise Tarot

Thursday, August 11: 437 words

Wednesday, August 10: 32 pages final revise Tarot

Tuesday, August 9: 270 words

Monday, August 8: 23 pages final revise Tarot

Sunday, August 7: 2550 words (Power Write Session)

Saturday, August 6: 872 words (all scene building)

Friday, August 5: 914 words

Thursday, August 4: 15 pages final revise Tarot

Wednesday, August 3: -226 words (cut a long boring section from chapter)

Tuesday, August 2: 30 pages final revise of Tarot

Monday, August 1: 515 words (all scene building notes)

Sunday, July 31: 66 words (revising and scene building)

Saturday, July 30: 339 words

Friday, July 29: 506 words

Thursday, July 28: 361 words

Wednesday, July 27: 969 words (1 hour)

Tuesday, July 26: 155 words (not bad for 30 minutes)

Monday, July 25: 492 words

Sunday, July 24: 7 words (revising for submission to crit group)

Saturday, July 23: 0 words (slept in)

Friday, July 22: 256 words (only half hour, daughter woke up early)

Thursday, July 21: -2 words (but I made a breakthrough on Theo’s back story)

Wednesday, July 20: 80 words (revising and only had 1/2 and hour)

Tuesday, July 19: 0 words (preparing for school)

Monday, July 18: 273 words (went for run)

Sunday, July 17: 607 words (outlining chapter 3)

Saturday, July 16: 482 words (no excuses, back in the flow)

Friday, July 15: 216 words, finally done with word research

Thursday, July 14: 0 words, Research (Dictionary and Thesaurus)

Wednesday, July 13: 0 words, Research (Dictionary and Thesaurus)

Tuesday, July 12: -1 word, heavy revisions from critique group

Monday, July 11: 136 words, finished first chapter in time for crit group

Sunday, July 10: 713 words

Saturday, July 9: 185 words

Friday, July 8: 401 words

Thursday, July 7: 200 words, still working on character bibles

Wednesday, July 6: 0 words, more character bibles and scene maps

Tuesday, July 5: 0 words, character bibles and scene maps