Fiction writer. Expert procrastinator. This is my life.
I’m off to a slow start this month on a big goal. My current best word count for a month is 57,249. I want to write 60,000 words this month to beat that.
Every so often, it’s a good idea for me to try to beat one of my previous records. This feels like a good time to try.
I’m just pasting this from my year in review post so I don’t forget I’ve already planned this out. :D
Here’s the plan.
1) Start a 1,000 words a day streak. That would get me about 183,000 words before the end of the year.
2) Focus on finishing each book quickly instead of jumping between projects.
3) Work on more than one project at a time. This doesn’t contradict number two, because it is based on working on the same multiple projects each day. I have two pen names. I also have three types of stories under one pen name (novels, short stories, and my experiment with a serial). I also have different series. I will settle on a way to choose which projects get worked on and then I’ll work on them until they’re done.