THE CRIMSON DOOR First Draft Stats

And another one bites the dust. As of 1:24 PM I have completed the first draft of my latest project, THE CRIMSON DOOR. Here are the stats:

• 42 writing days (November 8, 2012 to December 30, 2012)
• Total word count = 65,511
• 232 pages
• Most written in a sitting = 4,373
• Least written in a sitting = 234

My goal was to finish this draft before the New Year and I succeeded. For a while there I thought I wouldn't as there was a chapter that was giving me a lot of trouble. I ended up skipping it and went back to complete it later. As usual, a two week break will commence before I start editing. During that time I will begin work on my next WIP. The mind of a writer never sleeps, people!

FINAL DETENTION/IN SCHOOL First Draft Stats

And another one bites the dust! Here are the writing stats for the first--I should really say shitty rough draft--of FINAL DETENTION/IN SCHOOL. I'm going back and forth with those titles, so until I decide which one, I'll use both.

• 31 writing days starting on July 9, 2012 and ending on August 29, 2012
• Total word count = 47,933

The word count is definitely low, but that's where edits/rewrites come in handy. I planned on completing it before I leave for vacation on Friday and I did so I stuck to my deadline! WOO HOO! *Throws confetti*

When I come back I'll start the first round of edits and update the stats when I complete the next draft to show how many more words I added. See you when I return! I'll also post the playlist for this one soon.

UNTITLED First Draft Stats

Here are the writing stats for the very first draft of UNTITLED.

• 45 writing days starting on February 20, 2012 and ending on April 23, 2012
• Total word count = 83,594
• Most amount of words written in a sitting = 5,027
• Least amount of words written in a sitting = 196

Every time I sit down to write I like to get at least 1,000 words or more done. Of course there are days when I wrote below that, which is fine. Sometimes the words just don't flow out. I usually take the weekends off, though there were a few Saturdays I was able to get some writing in.

In regards to the title, I think I finally decided on ELPIS, which is the Greek word for "Hope." It makes the most sense to this first book, though I'm not entirely sure I like it as the overall series name. We'll see, but from now on UNTITLED will now officially be called ELPIS.