My rough timeline and schedule

And this is how I do it:

Each week – work twice a week
Therefore 10 days to work out all characters and rough plot outline

Thereafter,

Assuming 2 days of 2,000 words each
That means 4,000 words a week
That means 25 weeks, assuming I start 1 September
That takes me up to the last week of February
That means only 2 weeks of reprieve and no Christmas. 😦

To be safe, I need to write about 5,000 words a week
That means 20 weeks, with 7 weeks’ reprieve…

To allow for

• holidays and travelling
• illness
• family visits and other delights
• mental health days solvable only by watching rom-coms “for research”.

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