Deadline Fever

There's something about working under pressure that not only drives me crazy, but drives me to produce. To recap, from September 1 to October 15, my schedule included running two playtests (concurrently for the most part), turning in two final drafts to SJ Games (for a total of about 130,000 words), writing 10,000 words for a new GURPS supplement, writing a 20,000 word adventure for Hogshead's new Fright Night line, and creating three small - but rules-intensive - bits for Alderac's Spycraft.

I'm a little more than halfway through those treacherous six weeks, and have knocked out both playtests, a 40,000-word final draft, and all three Alderac assignments. But with on deadline looming this weekend, and another on October 7, I've seriously upped my word count this week:

Tuesday: 3,200 words
Wednesday: 4,200 words
Thursday: 4,500 words

I was wondering if I'd break my personal record of 5,400 words in one day (on GURPS WWII: All the King's Men, last December), but thankfully I haven't had to. I need to crank out about 15,000 more words before October 7, and do a final rewrite/edit on the 90,000-word All the King's Men by the 15th. Then I get to rest.

Nobody disturb me on October 16. I probably won't even be conscious.