Well, here we are the Sunday before Residency, and this is my first post concerning progress on my thesis novel. I hope to post occasionally on this to tie together the quick status posts I put on Twitter, Pownce and Facebook about my total progress.

Right now I’m almost at 80,000 words so I have about 10,000 or so words left in order to finish the novel. I believe though that I can wrap it up in about 5,000 words. I’ll be able to get at least another 1,000 tomorrow, and I plan to see if I can keep the momentum going during Residency, but that might be a little difficult considering I still have my critiques to do.

So far though, after speaking with my mentor, I’ve had an output spike and I hope to keep it going. I seem to have gone through so many different ways of keeping my output up. I’d like to hear some of different ways all of you use to keep on writing. I’ll post the top five methods you recommend in a later post.