A resumption of my monthly progress posts and an explanation of why I haven’t posted much lately.
Tag Archives: Accountability
Year in review—2021
How did I do in 2021? Not my best year, to be honest. In fact, it was hands down my worst year yet. Sigh.
My Kindle Vella story has the lowest profit for any story I’ve published
Kindle Vella is not profitable for me at this point in time by any definition of the word.
False starts and reconfigurations
Two steps forward, one step back. If repeated enough times, I will still get to where I want to be.
Well, back to timed writing!
Trying timed writing. Again.
Getting stuff out the door before Christmas and a new year’s goal
Clearing my slate and thinking about the new year.
1,200 words an hour—Attempt #2
A fun challenge. I want to write 1,200 an hour. Take 2.
1,200 words an hour—Attempt #1
A fun challenge. I want to write 1,200 words an hour.
As needed, when needed
Feeling kind of blah about it all.
Daily writing – Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020
Wednesday, I wrote 1,754 words.
Daily writing – Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020
I wrote 190 words on Tuesday, and more than half of those were on paper with a pencil. :-O What? I used to write a lot on paper, but I really don’t work like that anymore. This is what the streak has driven me to. :D I was out yesterday evening and tired when IContinue reading “Daily writing – Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020”
Daily writing – Monday, Jan. 27, 2020
Today I finally got back to the novel. I wrote 1,622 words on it. I also think I found my new routine for a while: a 3.5 hour block in my calendar for writing and a timer set for 3 hours of leisurely writing. ← Leisurely is the key word there. I don’t like pushingContinue reading “Daily writing – Monday, Jan. 27, 2020”
Daily post – Jan. 25, 2020 – Saturday
I finally gave in tonight and turned to another story to get some words in after barely wanting to look at my novel. I kept putting off even doing the 172 words I need to keep my daily writing streak alive, so switching off to something else was about the only way I was goingContinue reading “Daily post – Jan. 25, 2020 – Saturday”
Daily post – Jan. 23, 2020 – Thursday – Part two
I made it past the hump. I didn’t make a lot of progress with the word count, because I deleted two chunks of story that I no longer need and that knocked down my document’s word count. Since that’s how I track my daily word count, I have ended for the day at a netContinue reading “Daily post – Jan. 23, 2020 – Thursday – Part two”
Daily post – Jan. 23, 2020 – Thursday – Part one
As I said in my last post, I seem to be feeling better today (those sleep habits coming into play again) so I’m expecting myself to get some real writing done today. Luckily I woke up feeling good today and hopeful and even a little inspired so maybe I’m getting there. :-) I’ve had aContinue reading “Daily post – Jan. 23, 2020 – Thursday – Part one”
Daily post – Jan. 22, 2020 – Wednesday
Short night. Went to sleep at 3 am, woke up at 8 and couldn’t go back to sleep, so I’m up early. Today I’m coming at my writing from the angle of no schedule at all. I haven’t decided if I’ll use a timer. I guess it depends on what happens when I sit downContinue reading “Daily post – Jan. 22, 2020 – Wednesday”
Daily post – Jan. 21, 2020 – Tuesday
I wrote 225 words today. That was all this morning. I generally hate dictating fiction, but I did do some dictation into my phone this morning and that’s how I logged those 225 words. Saved my daily writing streak, so that’s good. I did no fiction writing after that at all. Never even looked atContinue reading “Daily post – Jan. 21, 2020 – Tuesday”
Daily post – Jan. 20, 2020
Crazy, crazy, crazy day yesterday. I had a two day streak of 1000+ words and I wanted to keep it going, but it wasn’t looking likely. I was sitting at 529 words for the day at 11 pm and I was in pain and more tired than I’ve been in ages. So I took myContinue reading “Daily post – Jan. 20, 2020”
Daily post – Jan. 19, 2020
Intention: Write 4,000 words today. Preferably within the three hour blocks I’ve set aside for writing. (I wrote this as a draft this morning.) What actually happened: I wrote 1,388 words today. My routine was a mess, but I liked it. I mostly overloaded my calendar with stuff to do, filled every minute of theContinue reading “Daily post – Jan. 19, 2020”
Daily post – Jan. 16, 2020
And here I am doing a morning post. :) Let’s see, yesterday’s word count was 190 words, just enough to keep my streak alive (I needed 163 per the new rules). Today I’m trying something a little different. Yesterday was a disaster and I think it’s because I let the numbers get in my head.Continue reading “Daily post – Jan. 16, 2020”