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[avidreadergirl.livejournal.com]

 I have 10,500 words aprox. I'm pleased but a little alarmed. I was expecting to be further along, in fact I was expecting to have the rough draft finished before the deadline.

As it is I figure at 300 words a day for 46 days I should hit the 20k mark. But I'm concerned about one thing and looking for advice/feedback.  

The most urgent is the medical stuff. My story is a suspense/thriller the medicine is (largely) background and I have a lot of insertexperimentalprocedurehere and insertrareconditionhere taking up space ( I keep it one word so as to not screw up the word count, which I have become obsessed with. I figured most of what i pick will probably be two words anyway so I'll even gain ground, more words yay!) But I'm thinking what is going to kill me is not the word count but the research, which probably won't be done by feb 15.

So my question is should I be spending more time on this now, or just keep kicking the word count and wait on the medical stuff until the editing phase? 

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Comments

[mystcphoenxcafe.livejournal.com]

Greetings!

Being in somewhat of a similar boat, tho' with a different solution, I'd say just keep writing. Get the first draft out and then fill in the details.

Good Fortune w/it!!!
-Katrina

[avidreadergirl.livejournal.com]

That's how I'm leaning, for the input!

Good fortune to you too.

[mystcphoenxcafe.livejournal.com]

Greetings!

Most welcome and thank'ee's, respectively! :-D

-Katrina

PS - Love your cat icon. Very commanding and regal feline. :-) -K

[hwshipper.livejournal.com]

I say if the suspense/thriller part is what is flowing for you right now, then write it down now, and worry about the rest later!

[avidreadergirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks, That's the course I'm working on, I just have this little voice in the back of mind that's saying I should either, do the research or write faster. I've chosen the later. :)

BTW your Archiebeta should be done this weekend. (if not before)

[hwshipper.livejournal.com]

Hurrah & thank-you! Don't hurry though, I'm off on holiday this weekend for a week so won't see it until I get back anyway. Also I have not got as far as I should with my next (last) part yet, hum...

[oldblue.livejournal.com]

I'd say don't waste time on the medical stuff right now. You'll probably need to get a medical beta for that and they're just going to change it all around anyway ;)

Good Luck!

[avidreadergirl.livejournal.com]

LOL probably, I'm trying to write faster so I can do both the research and the writing. :) Thanks so much for the input!