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title: "Day 3"
date: 2003-11-03
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
---

# Day 3

6,086 words. Had to struggle to reach this. Started at 8.30pm and finished about 11.10pm. Man this is hard work and I’m only 3 days in. 27 more days to go! The good news is I’m still working at 2,000 words per day, but I suspect I’m going to have to put in a couple of good weekends of writing – so I can have a break on some days. [Erik Benson](<https://web.archive.org/web/20040306085946/http://erikbenson.com/index.cgi?node=Disaster, Day Two>) is at 4,848 words after 2 days – wow!

Sorry my weblog writing is taking a back-seat this month (not to menion my reading!). My novel has some interesting themes though, especially of communication. Even if the end result is a dodgy novel, the process I’m going through will be worth it (one hopes).

No the [All Blacks didn’t exactly hammer Wales](https://web.archive.org/web/20040306085946/http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2714371a9893,00.html), but hopefully the process of having a tough game will be worth it for them too 😉

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/11/03.html#a142))*