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THE JOURNEY OF MY FIRST BOOK
Day 8 — Another Productive One
Writing
Welcome to The Journey of My First Book, a series of stories documenting the publication process of my first book.12 August 2022
Morning. I didn’t have a great night — struggling to get to sleep and when I managed to finally do so I had weird dreams that caused me to wake up. This pattern followed almost throughout the entire night, the only interruptions being my cough episodes.
It’s not a surprise that the start of my day was not great either. I woke up late and I feel quite tired as I'm writing this just after 9.00 am. So my expectations for today are low, anything is better than nothing and I’ll be happy with however many words I manage to write as long as I get something on the page.
Starting a new chapter today which feels like another milestone. There will be quite a bit of research involved for this one, so I might write less than usual as was the case the last time I did more intense research.
As I said yesterday, I’m looking to get over the 30,000 words mark before the weekend, so I’d better start writing.
Evening. I surprised myself today with 2,242 words written which takes the book to over 30,000 words and 62% complete.
