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You can see that I added my word count widget to the blog. I am so proud of this! I'm 75% there now and can smell the finish line. I want to be at either 39,500 or 40,000 by the end of the day!

A week to go and I feel great. I'm going to make it. I've come too far not to reach the goal. I'm not patting myself on the back yet but I am surprised at myself. Honestly, I never thought I was going to have a chance to reach even this word count. I thought I would have run out of things to say long ago. I don't think I'm quite to the half way point yet. I bet I will reach that in the next week. 50,000 words as my half way point? Weird.

Want to know what is more odd? It hasn't been difficult. I was thinking about that last night getting the dishes done. This hasn't been hard. It was a wild sensation. I have NEVER written this much before. At this time at 37,500 this is about 3 times longer than anything else I have written. What is the difference? I have a goal and a deadline. I should have known. My boss gives me deadlines because she knows that I struggle if I don't have a defined end date. I should have been pitching word counts in my own head all along. But now that I know I can do this....I can do it again.