149: Writing 1 chapter/day for a week — results from attempt #2 (daily breakdown)

In this episode, I want to follow up on recent episodes where I shared about my writing experiment of doing 4,000 words/day for a full week. You can learn about the background of this experiment in Episode 145, and the results from my first attempt in Episode 147. I’d also recommend tuning into Episode 148, in which I also share all about how I mapped out the entire story and chapter outline in great detail.

So in this episode, I want to share with you the results from my second attempt of writing a chapter/day for a full week (working on Book 8 in my Polyamorous Passions series).

We discuss...

• Why I changed the official experiment from 4,000 words/day to 3,500 words/day.
• An important method for successfully "killing your darlings" (this makes it SO MUCH EASIER).
• Daily breakdown of how the week went (including actual word count achieved each day).
• Problems I ran into along the way over the course of this week — and what I did about those struggles.
• Powerful mindset shifts I experienced (plus invaluable life lessons that came up). 
• How I handled distractions and the importance of minimizing barriers.
• Final results from this writing experiment and my next plans moving forward with making good progress for this book

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