Wrote 6500 words on a short story today, to go with the 3000 I’d already written, to give me a complete rough draft. Very rough–it’ll be at least a third shorter by the time I’m through, and what remains will hopefully be more fleshed out, richer in detail. But I now have the arc and the shape of the tale–giving me something concrete to hone in on it.
I’d been thinking about this story for some time, but needed to get some other things out of the way before I could finally dive in. 6500 words in a day is a lot for me.
A lot of those words are going to go away, but I needed to write them, first.
Some days, I actually manage to feel like a real writer.