Day 1

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Here's today's prompt for you to post your updates and any excerpts and thoughts etc in comments.

I also thought I'd provide a link to a simple word counter, the Picometer at Writertopia.com. To make it easy, just copy the following HTML, changing 1340 to the number of words you've written, and 5000 to whatever your target is:

<img src="http://picometer.writertopia.com/words=1340&target=5000" />

The result for this example is:

Comments

[azdak.livejournal.com]

She's an artist! That's so cool! is that one of the few pictures of him that exist?

And 500 words! Fantastic!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's a rare picture. No pictures, pleeeze.

As for 500 words, yes, that's a good start. How long did you say a novel is? 80,000? *eeep*