Stamina

I was able to revise the last chapter without any problems. Awesome!

I am at the point where, if I have nothing to do, and the mood is right (which has been a lot lately) that I can write nearly 2,000 words in a sitting. I am somewhat happy about this because I read somewhere that Stephen King tries to hit this quota daily. But what is more is that this is about 1/5 of a chapter (a chapter lately has been about 9,500 words in MS Word, or roughly 18 pages in MS Word). Keeping up with this stamina is good for writing--it begets the proper pace--and it means I get to the end much sooner, i.e. a chapter a week. Sometimes if I'm really in the zone I can do 4,000 words in a sitting (about five hours). Considering that from senior year of high school to about...before Christmas Break my 5th year of college I had only written about eight or nine chapters, and now in the span from then till now I have written six chapters, this is a great boon. We'll see what happens with finals and other things coming up, but I may finally get this thing done by June or so.

Also, it's kind of interesting. Let's say I wrote this all this year. Doing (goal of thirty chapters+prelude) at the pace of a chapter a week is about 31 weeks. And, I rush, maybe burn out. At the pace lately it doesn't seem like that's a long time, but that's almost a year to write thirty chapters. No wonder sequels for books take a long time to come out. You have to prevent burnout, get inspiration from reading and doing other things, and so on.