The first sentence I wrote today was…

The meeting with her parents didn’t go at all as Emily had anticipated.

Current word count: 10,452
New words this session: 1,236
Percentage of novel completed: 10.4

I’m more than 10 percent of the way to my 100,000 words!

Of course, at this point most of what I’ve written feels like crap to me, but one simply has to push through that feeling and get the words down. Improving and tightening and massaging and all that revision stuff comes much, much later.

“I’ll fix it later” is, in fact, my first-draft writing motto.

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