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About a Hundred Left for Part Two

About a Hundred Left for Part Two

Around a thousand words equals two pages in Times 12 font. That’s about five hundred words per page. About what I thought it was. But I thought that’s what it was for Courier 12 font. Figured it would be a little bit more since Times 12 is a longer line with seventy-eight characters instead of sixty. I guess I was wrong about that too.

Why am I writing about fonts? It’s because that’s about how many words I got written yesterday at work. It should have been a lot more than that. But with me fighting a cold, and losing, I was probably lucky that I got that many written. I still have about a hundred more words left before I finish the second part of my Introduction chapter for my novel, Professional Eliminators.

I should have gotten this second part finished. Maybe even got started on the third part a little too. But I didn’t. And I’m not sure why. I know that it has something to do with the cold that I’m fighting. But is that the only reason? That’s why I don’t know. As far as I can tell it’s just the cold. But it could be something else.

Do know one thing, though. I’m not going to get my fifty-thousand-word count for this challenge that I’m involved in this year either. If I’m lucky, I will get three or four chapters written. That’s about fifteen to twenty thousand words. Not even half of the fifty thousand that I need for this challenge. Hopefully, it’s because it’s the beginning of this novel. And it will get better.

After all, this is only the fifth of November. I still have plenty of time to get more written. It doesn’t look too good at the moment. That doesn’t mean it won’t get better as I get more into the story. At least that’s what I hope will happen. All I can do is continue getting as much writing as I can each day that I get the chance to work on this novel.

Yes, I know that worrying about this goal of fifty thousand is part of my problem in getting the words that I need for this challenge. But I can’t help it. That’s the way that I am in my writing. I do a lot of worrying. And it does affect my writing. Hopefully, it doesn’t do it a lot. But I have a feeling that it does. I need to do something about this. I’m just not sure how I’m going to do that yet.

If I can do that? It’s part of who I am as a writer. I can’t help myself. And there is a very good chance that I won’t ever be able to do it. It would have been a lot easier for me if I could have used Auto Recording to help me. I may have even gotten my fifty-thousand goal if I could do that. But it doesn’t look like I will be able to do it that way.