It’s the middle of the month and my word count is not where I want it. I’ve had pitches and proposals to write, and it’s always easier to write two chapters of a book than a synopsis, plus research and plotting, but all that work takes time…and it’s time that doesn’t directly add to my word count quota, which I am now officially behind on for the month. Eeep. Which means it is time to buckle down and make up word count.

My overall daily target word count is not all that onerous; 4 pages a day will produce 4 books a year. It’s all this other stuff that eats away at that time, and if said books are not pre-sold, I don’t know what I’m writing so I can’t be doing the four pages. Also when books come out there’s promotional work, and there’s editing after books are turned in. So there’s this constant shuffle of working on proposals in hopes of future book sales, revising the previous book, promoting the current book. While trying to get those 4 pages in.

Anyway, it is now time to make up for days when I didn’t get 4 pages, or when those 4 pages may not have counted towards a future book. *typing furiously*