Monthly Archives: November 2009

I felt inspired to start working on Piratas again tonight. I’m nearly an hour in and have formatted parts three through five. Think of each part as a chapter with a bunch of little chapters within each. I’m sitting right at twenty-seven printed pages so far, formatted at Font Size 12 and 6″x9″ pages. I did push myself to just over 7,800 words. I left off two weeks ago at 6,500, so it hasn’t been a terribly difficult forty-five minutes of work.
I’m a little worried because I’ve only outline Part Four in my notebook – five subjects, five parts in the book. Convenient, isn’t it? Like I said, it has me a little worried, but Part Four is where all the real action is going to take place. I freestyled all of Part One and what I have so far of Part Two. Part Three probably will be too, as well as Part Five. I should say though, that I at least started outlining Part Three, so it’ll probably start out the way it’s outlined then my freestyling will overpower it (as always).
I’m setting a goal for myself: to get myself over the 10,000 word mark. This weekend I am free, so I will have time both Saturday and Sunday mornings to write to my heart’s content. Hey, it’s only 2,200 words. Let’s hope the inspiration doesn’t decide to take another two week sabbatical right when I need it.