On the Road Writing

I'm in a hotel in Cochrane writing another thousand words of the novel. I'm so proud of myself. It's been at least a year since I was able to work on the road. Yesterday, I was worried I wouldn't be able to get the word count for today, so I wrote an extra thousand words to cover off today. But for some reason, I was able to get up early today and get to work. Took me an hour, but I cracked off the word count and found some cool bits about the characters. Still a lot of work to do, but I'm at the one-third mark - 12,000 words. My target is about 35,000 words.

There's a part of me that wants to make this novel longer than the previous three because this one is the last in the series. There's another part that thinks that overwriting is just self-indulgent. The length of the story should be the length that the story needs and not what the writer wants.

Anyway, I have to hop in the shower and get ready for the drive back to Edmonton.

Oh, I forgot to say why I'm on the road. Last night, I did workshop for the students at Wordsworth, the writing camp run by the Young Alberta Book Society. The group was awesome. I've never seen a group of kids so excited about writing. Maybe that's why I felt so creative this morning.