Working with facts

I'm not one for maths. Which makes writing a really good profession for me! And, you would think there isn't any maths at all, tapping out words on a keyboard. But this is a myth! I've been told a few times that the only way to make good decisions is to base it around facts.

I know I've said before that I have three deadlines next year, and if I stop and look at the facts around that statement, then I find I actually have three deadlines between now (9th Dec 21 and 30th June 21.) When I started NaNoWriMo, I decided to write two books simultaneously. So book 20 is being written this week, and next week will be book 21 and so on and so on. A week is enough time to get into the characters, plot and setting and become immersed back into the pages. All of that sounds great, doesn't it? Until I worked out that I only had half the time I thought I had because I was writing week about!

That spurred me on to work out how many days I had to write each book. Every book requires about 80,000 words at a minimum. I usually work on about 87,000 to 91,000 words per book. Back to facts, I have 90,000 words to write in a silly amount of days for book 20, so I've divided 90,000 into those days and come up with the amount I need to write per day to get the book finished on time. Having done this for all three of these, I've decided that I'll be looking forward to taking a month off in July, when I hand them all in.

Funnily enough, it's not daunting. The projects have been broken down into small, bite-sized pieces, so I'm keen to get cracking and write a few more books for you all! Wish me luck!