October 8, 2012 – Total to date 24,985 words 

 

I was pretty well keeping up to my daily goal of 2,000
words per day, and then – low and behold – I was sabotaged by a holiday, which,
in my ultra dumbness, I hadn’t taken into consideration. Our Canadian
Thanksgiving is supposed to be today (Monday October 8th), but my family had to
come home on the weekend. So what’s a mom going to do?

 

Ignore her son and keep up her word count, or…??

 

I, naturally, chose…or!

 

I mean keeping up with my schedule is important to me.
When I set a goal, I do it with all intentions of succeeding. So, this little
bleep will have to be rectified. Sure that sounds pretty cheeky doesn’t it?
Well the truth is – if I want to finish the book by the deadline of October
15th, and there are only so many days left, I quite simply have to divide the
word count that I’m aiming for by those days. In the beginning, my brilliant deduction –ahem
–told me that if I wrote 2,000 words a day, it would get done. Finished!
Success!

 

Uh-oh!

 

So…now I have to make up for two days and that’s – let
me see…Yep! – 4,000 words.

 

With 7 days left, I need to write approximately 20,000
words uhhh…divided by 7…..ummm …holy shut the door…2,700plus words a day.
Right!

 

No problem….gulp!

 

Gottta go now and if you don’t hear from me for a few
days, you’ll know why.

 

Wish me luck!!!

 

…Now what the heck did I do with that bottle of eye drops??