STATS:
Average Word Count for Week 10: 1,123
Total Week 10 Word Count: 7,863
Words to Go:
Month:
Minimum: 70,575
Stretch Goal: 87,241
Insane Stretch Goal: 187,241
Year: 934,340
Week 10! I have entered the double digits in terms of week numbers for this challenge, and I am so excited!
Without a doubt, this was an improvement over the previous week of January that also marked quite a few milestones in my writing life!
WEEK WINS
First of all, Week 10 is the first week that I hit two 2,000+ word days back to back, giving this week the STRONGEST first half yet.
And this translated into real progress!
CAN YOU SPELL WEREWOLF?:
I worked on Draft 2 and/or material for it for 6 out of 7 days of this week, my most consistent since November.
I moved from 35 chapters completed to 42 out of 78, crossing into the 50% mark on January 10th. I rewarded myself by doing something that I will reveal news about in around 2 months from now on.
A Speller’s Genesis
Chapter 4 released on January 9
Chapters 5 and 6 released on January 13
THE CON OF THIS WEEK—AND WHY IT’S OKAY
My word count and project progress did dip after the 11th.
But that’s ok. Why?
Because I still wrote on those last 3 days.
In fact, Week 10 is the second week in a row this month that I haven’t had a single zero day.
Not only that, I have been writing without a single zero day since December 26th, 2025.
That’s TWENTY DAYS STRAIGHT.
And at time of writing this post, it’s the 15th of January, so that would be 21 days
Not only did I beat my last no-zero day record of this challenge 16 days from November 25th to December 9TH, but I also beat my last record of working on a project—Can You Spell Werewolf? Draft 1—-the longest, which was NINETEEN days.
So yeah, consistency makes all the difference in terms of quality for a Milwordy week.
LOOKING AHEAD TO WEEK ELEVEN
And WEEK ELEVEN? This week is going to be the turning point in this challenge and my writing career with how much I plan to be working on Can You Spell Werewolf? and A Speller’s Genesis?
To be more specific, drafting ALL of the remaining chapters for Draft 2 in the first five days of this week while still writing and revising enough new chapters for A Speller’s Genesis to stay a little bit ahead of release schedule (or at least not behind).
But anyway, that’s all from me.
Stay tuned for Chapter Seven of A Speller’s Genesis coming tomorrow, if you don’t see it already! And for the other chapters of that novel and the next Milwordy recap!
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