2000 words a day...

no, don't worry... i'm not going to torture you all with my 2000 words for the day on the blog! i was blog surfing again the other day (one of my new FAVORITE past times - you learn SOOO much!) and i came across a blog written by a publishing agent and she kept commenting throughout her various posts that she had just finished or still needed to do her 2000 words for the day... i'd been looking for some kind of tangible exercise (other than blogging every day) to be able to do to show myself that i was working towards the goal i have of being a published writer by the time i'm 30 (i also found out that this probably means that i'll need a manuscript finished by the time i'm 27 since it takes about 12-18 months AFTER a publisher agrees to publish you before you actually get published! so that just pushed my timeline up that much more!)... so, the last two nights (i've found that i write best and my brain functions the most when my house is quiet and everybody in it - other than me, of course - is asleep... sometimes naptime works for this too, but after jason goes to bed is when it seems to work the best... no tv and no kids!), i decided to see how much 2000 words really was... the first night, i was really tired and having a hard time since my head was really foggy (thanks to my sinuses), but i managed to get over 1500 words... last night, i decided to try for 1500 words and then see where i was... i made to 2319 words! (by the way... i only count the words that i write in a particular document - not the total number of words i write all day long - that would be a TON of words!!) i was so excited that i actually made it to 2000 words (about 3 full pages of single spaced typing)!! my next goal is to be able to sit down and write 2000 words on one topic - the documents so far have just been my random musings and haven't really had a singular theme or idea... we'll see how that goes... i'm just happy with 2000 right now! :)