Day: May 13, 2014

One Million Words Challenge Is Not Dead—Yet

Lynn

Since early April, I’ve allowed myself to freely write on multiple stories each day instead of constraining myself to only the one I want completed first.

So far I’ve put almost all my effort into six projects: my early 2014 novella, two novels I need done ASAP, a new novel meant for a new pen name, and two short stories (one of which is done and needs only to be published).

Getting that story publishing should be a high priority but every time I sit down to format it, I get distracted. Yeah. I’m really not acting in my own best interests here. ;)

For the moment, I’m looking for a way to pump up my word counts this month, on those specific projects I need to finish, by focusing on the one million words challenge. Now that I feel like I’ve had a bit of a breakthrough, I think I can meet the word count goals I’ll need to meet to end the year with those one million words of fiction. :D

The math as of today: 905,523 words left to write / 232 days left in the year = 3,903 words per day.

The good news is that although that will be tough, it’s doable.

I need to revisit the idea of a daily time quota, and that may not be my favorite idea, but it’s time to do whatever I need to do to get me where I want to go. I honestly believe I can still meet the one million words challenge but I’m going to have to keep improving and pushing.

I’ve always said I want to be prolific. I want to write a lot—and I mean a LOT—of books.

If that’s truly what I want, then I probably need to get busy making that happen.

Progress: May 13, Tuesday

Lynn

I’m bored. Not of my books (although you’d think so after today’s determined efforts to procrastinate), not of this site, but of these progress posts.

I thought they’d be helpful or motivational or something, but they’re really not doing anything for me.

So this could be the last “progress” note. I even created a category for them.

Ah, well. I’ll just use it for something else. I still haven’t renamed the “It’s a Job” category either. I might not.

Right now, I’m sitting at -255 words.

I deleted some stuff with the intent to write on that story and then I gave in to the fact that I just don’t feel well. I think I have an ear infection or something. My ear hurts. And I’m very tired. And although I had big plans—HUGE plans—for my writing today, when it came down to it, I just didn’t feel like writing.

So here’s to a better day tomorrow and calling it a night tonight.