Last night, I finished the first draft of Fishpunk. It came in about 7000 words shorter than I projected before starting, 73,262 vs 80,000. Not bad for a guess I made in February.
Progress this week, 8991 words in 5 days, including a hair below 2500 today for the homestretch. This will be the final weekly status report until I start writing A Darkling Nine.
Feels good to get another novel under my belt. That is my fourth, and the first novel I wrote from cover to cover without really stopping. Here are the stats for Fishpunk:
Total Days Worked: 44 (including the day 2000 words vanished)
Days since start: 49
Average words per day: 1495
Next, I plan to work on a non-fiction article I’ve been meaning to do, and also pound out a short story that’s bounding around in my head. I hope to begin working in earnest on my next novel, A Darkling Nine by the end of April.