50,000!

As of a few minutes ago, I just passed 50,000 words on my book. That includes the 25,000 words that were in my original proposal, and it means I've written 20,000 words since I started writing in earnest (April 23rd or so). So the good news is, I'm writing really really fast. The odd thing is, I'm nowhere near finished--I feel like I've told maybe a third of the story--and most books are in the 80,000-100,000 range.

The good part of this is that I'm clearly writing too much, which is helpful because that means that the editing process will be mostly trimming, which is way easier than generating missing material. The bad part is that I seem to have slightly less control over the process than I anticipated, and I think I need to lash myself a bit more strongly to my outline if I'm going to avoid writing WAY too much, since I'm trying to operate in a timely fashion, and I only have time for a LITTLE too much--say, 150,000 words or so.

Anyway, the house is free of people for the next three solid days, and this was a 4,000-word day all by itself. At this rate, I can probably hit another 20,000 by the weekend. Won't that be cool?