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Currently at 2218 on Sunday 6 August 2017 I am less than 2 hours from another writing marathon. This one for the Natal Day holiday on August 7, 2017. As with previous marathons I will be tracking the writing as I go every hour so stay with me and check back every hour as I go through the marathon.

The goal for this one is to get to 22 thousand words.

0000 – 0100 got 1337 words written. 20663 from my goal. The next hour I will go for 1604 words.

0100 – 0115 break.

0115 – 0215 – Got 1240 words written for a total of 2577 and 19423 from my goal.

0215 – 0245 – Break

0245 – 0345 – got 1119 words written for a total of 3696 and 18304 from my goal.

0345 – 0400 – break

0400 – 0500 -Got to 1127 words for a new total of 4823 and 17177 from my goal.

0500 – 0530 – break

0530 – 0630 – got 818 words written for a total of 5641 and 16359 away from my goal. Starting to fade as I’ve been up for over twenty four hours from working yesterday. So a little bit longer break and I’ll be back.

0630 to 0845 – break. took too long of a break but couldn’t be helped.

0845 – 0945 – got 953 words written for a total of 6594 on the day. 15406 from my goal.

0945 – 1000 – break

1000 – 1100 – got 1087 words written for a total of 7681 for the day and 14319 from my goal.

1100 – 1130 – break

1130 – 1230 – got 1239 words written for a total of 8920 for the day and 13080 from my goal.

1230 to 1235 – break. I got to get about 1200 words every hour to get my goal. so I’m really going to push it.

1235 to 1335 – Got 1182 words for 10102 words for the day and 11898 from my goal. Completed one of the short stories

1335 – to 1350 – break. and did the spell check on one of the stories that I completed.

1350 to 1450 – got 1297 words written for 11399 for the day and 10601 from my goal.

1450 – 1500 – break and set up the finished short story for Word Crusher. The next break I will submit it to Kindle, either that or wait until the end of the marathon in order to get the writing word count completed.

1500 – 1600 – got 1237 words written for a total of 12636 and 9364 from my goal.

1600 to 1610 – break. with this going over to the next hour I will now need to get to 1350 words each hour to get my goal.

1610 to 1710 – got 989 words written for 13625 on the day and 8375 from my goal.

1710 to 1750 – break. accidentally took too long on the break, dozed off.

1750 – 1850 – got 1312 words written for 14937 on the day and 7063 away from my goal.

1850 to 1900 – break

1900 – 2000 – got 980 words written for a total of 15917 on the day and 6083 from my goal.

2000 to 2045 starting to fade again so going out for a walk then I’ll make the final push for the remaining time without any break and try and get to the goal.

2045 to 0000 – going to go all out and do my best to get the remaining 6083 words in the last three hours. During this time I finished a second short story and started on a third.

I stopped at 2343 when it became I was not going to make the goal. And I was blocking on being able to write anymore.

I will be attempting another one this coming weekend for my birthday. And I’ll apply what I learned here. Don’t do a marathon when you’ve worked a twelve hour shift the day before and am unable to get any sleep on the nap before. And no matter what I am going to do my best to motor on through the marathon. I not for the longer breaks I probably could have made it.