Celebrating Small Victories

I'm celebrating the completion of the first draft of the didactic novel today. I started exactly three months ago and I passed the 60,000 word mark today with what I consider to be the final scene. I anticipate that revisions will bring the final count to about 80,000 words.

Two things worked very well in getting me to this point:
1. I stuck to the plan of writing the first draft without stopping to edit or think too much about revisions.
2. I kept a detailed log of progress, with a word count tally and a growing table of contents.

Next steps: Read the full first draft and figure out how to proceed with revisions.