10 Week/40 Hour Status

I have been writing for ten weeks, and have managed to keep up on writing time, although the whole "one hour a day, four days a week" has kind of gone out the window. Mostly I've been doing whatever works, but at this point I think I might officially switch to half an hour a day most days, with a full hour one day (still totaling four hours per week, but a rather different model).

The "writing day" vs. "off day" model actually doesn't work that well with real life, and although my goal with the hour-long session was to have a session long enough to really get going, it doesn't seem to work out that way (at least for first-draft writing). The basic problem is that in about half an hour I've written everything I'd really thought out, and then either have to take precious time deciding what happens next, or stop.

With half-hour sessions I can just dump out what I had contemplated during walks, showers, etc., and not waste my writing time thinking!

Of course there is a cost to this: things probably aren't as dynamic and flowing as if I spent longer periods of time writing. On the other hand, it fits much better with a full life, and actually allows a surprising amount of progress:

In forty hours (one work week), spread over ten weeks, I have written:
82,229 words (2,055 per hour)
174 pages

There is no earthly way I could have written as much sitting down for eight hours a day, because I'm pretty sure I put in as much time thinking between sessions as I do actually writing.

In any case, I'm making good progress.
I don't think I'll be done by month 3 (the upper limit of my original estimate), but I might be done by month 4. Then the real work will begin!