Day 15 stats:
Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667
Word Count Goal: 3,000
Actual Word Count: 1,852
Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): +185
Total Word Count Score: 24,787
Chapters complete: 12
Despite having a few free hours while my wife performed her maid-of-honor duties, I got barely the minimum daily word count achieved. Found some new plot opportunities opening up, but didn’t get to explore them very much.
Still working on really letting go of the writing, not worrying about typos or even continuity. I can feel the story taking shape, though it’s clear that a lot of the plot will need to be re-written if not deleted altogether. So, there’s some excitement as well as some vague disappointment in acknowledging the need to spend time writing that you know you’ll never use.
Lesson learned: there’s a large degree of creative destruction (or a built-in amount of necessary inefficiency) as part of writing. I’m beginning to see the benefit of dumping a lot of ideas on the table, since the more you have to work with, the more chance you have of coming up with that creative spark that sets the writing off in new directions. The more constrained you are, the fewer building blocks you have to work with.