Most days I'm easily going over my target - in fact my average word count is 500 words a day. I've done seven days of writing, and 3,503 words so far - with a few extra typed here and there that I didn't bother tracking. So far, I'm only doing the challenge five days a week, but I might up that to six days a week soon.
I want to keep it achievable though. That's why I picked such a low word count to aim for. Yes, it would be slightly ridiculous for some writers who are already writing regularly to do the same, but this is for me. A busy mother with three children under four years old, who has many other responsibilities and hobbies besides writing.
250 words, five days a week is not only achievable, but also encouraging. I hit that goal, I want to try for more. So I end up doing more than 250 words each and every time I sit down to write! Sometimes it's a little more, sometimes it's a lot, like 1,013!
Either way, progress is being made and it's good. I like it.
"The
first jump was an inviting oxer, with a nice ground line. Simple bars, and
solid wings, the jump was set up to encourage the horse and rider to get into
the course.
It
didn’t look that scary until Jody was standing next to it, and then it was as
high as Dudley’s knees, 60 centimetres tall. She could feel the butterflies
flopping about. She’d jumped higher than that before – she’d been regularly
jumping a meter ten at the riding school, but that had with Bosley; her
favourite mount. Now it was just her and Dudley and she wasn’t sure she was
ready for that.
She
could dimly hear Mrs. Lowe discussing the course as they walked around, and
shook herself, panicking. What did she miss? “-so make sure you sit up after
the spread and really half-halt to gather Dudley’s strides. He will have
flattened out to jump over the width of the triple bar, and you’ll really need
to collect them up to get through the bounce clear.”
David
nodded in complete agreement, but Jody felt like a vice was squeezing her
ribcage when she looked at the pair of jumps set so closely together after that
wide staircase spread.
A
triple bar! Then a combination! She could feel her knees knocking together, but
David and Mrs. Lowe were already striding to the last jump of the twelve obstacles
– the wall.
A solid
jump, one to scare the riders, and Jody remembered it’s not just the riders
that don’t like wall jumps – most horses didn’t either because they couldn’t
see the ground on the other side of the jump. They had to trust their rider
that it was safe to jump.
Jody
swallowed hard. She and Dudley had been working on their relationship all this
time – and they’d had some crazy adventures together – riding for help after
Betty’s accident, and then riding out alone to help Cinnamon, but where they
ready for this?
- Dudley's Last Chance by Bonita Vear
Coming soon!
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