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January Word Count & Weekly Goal
As mentioned previously, the 2500-words-a-week thing has been working better in theory than in practice. That doesn't mean writing hasn't been happening, however!
January:
4685 = Green Ring
5185 = original short fiction (mostly "Venturesome Sheep Day")
Total new words in January: 9870
That ain't bad! Especially when you consider I'm coming out of a two-year slump with very little writing in it at all. If that's all the weekly-quota thing achieves, I'd still say it's an absolute win.
Speaking of which:
Week 1: 4097
Week 2: 1074
Week 3: 1634
Week 4: 1443
Week 5: 1622
Week 6: 1710
Week 7: 989 (Week 7 ends today, but I'm unlikely to get more words in before midnight.)
The average on days that I've written has been pretty decent, often at least within shouting distance of that magical 833 and occasionally well above it. The primary failure point is that I'm frequently only managing one or two writing days in a week. Now granted, I'm pulling extra hours at work and life has been insane lately, but I need to fit writing in more often. Relatedly, I need to speed up my "booting up" process so that a good writing session doesn't have to be a most-of-the-day affair.
The last time I sat down at the keyboard, I put the Mission Impossible theme on repeat. That definitely served to get me going faster sooner! (It's wildly not the appropriate music for the story in question, but it was good for that one scene.)
So that's the state of the writer thus far this year. Now I have to go get ready for my writers group, which paradoxically is one of the reasons I'm not writing today.
January:
4685 = Green Ring
5185 = original short fiction (mostly "Venturesome Sheep Day")
Total new words in January: 9870
That ain't bad! Especially when you consider I'm coming out of a two-year slump with very little writing in it at all. If that's all the weekly-quota thing achieves, I'd still say it's an absolute win.
Speaking of which:
Week 1: 4097
Week 2: 1074
Week 3: 1634
Week 4: 1443
Week 5: 1622
Week 6: 1710
Week 7: 989 (Week 7 ends today, but I'm unlikely to get more words in before midnight.)
The average on days that I've written has been pretty decent, often at least within shouting distance of that magical 833 and occasionally well above it. The primary failure point is that I'm frequently only managing one or two writing days in a week. Now granted, I'm pulling extra hours at work and life has been insane lately, but I need to fit writing in more often. Relatedly, I need to speed up my "booting up" process so that a good writing session doesn't have to be a most-of-the-day affair.
The last time I sat down at the keyboard, I put the Mission Impossible theme on repeat. That definitely served to get me going faster sooner! (It's wildly not the appropriate music for the story in question, but it was good for that one scene.)
So that's the state of the writer thus far this year. Now I have to go get ready for my writers group, which paradoxically is one of the reasons I'm not writing today.