I heisted the tracker idea from Nicole . I've always thought it was cute, and it fit today because I feel like a prune. (I am either fighting off a cold, or catching it slowly.) But, I did get nearly 8500 words done this past weekend! Problem is... The early part of the story should be more traumatic. I have ideas on how to fix that by changing the flow of the scene/s. I like what I did, but perhaps it would be more effective if I made my changes. I'm thinking about it anyway. Which I shouldn't be! How can I finish 50,000+ words this month if I spend time reworking what I've already written? The only way I'll ever "finish" is to fast write the length of the novel, then edit. That is my struggle. I need to learn to just write, then just edit! So here is my answer. Here's the rough draft of part of chapter 2, and the part I want to change is in brackets. Hopefully, that technique will work for me. It'll screw up the word count to a certain degree, bu