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”
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Thankful yesterday wasn’t a zero word day :-)
I sat down yesterday morning on day six of my (re)start of the 2,000 words a day plan and wrote 401 words. I’m glad I did, because I thought I’d feel like writing later and maybe get a chance to actually write my 2,000 words yesterday. HAHAHAHAHA! Yesterday was also day 115 of my effortContinue reading “Thankful yesterday wasn’t a zero word day :-)”
Falling falling falling…
Should never had bragged about my two day streak of 1,000+ words. ;) Of course I broke it yesterday. I just had too much to do in the afternoon and I had too many interruptions in the morning. I wrote 863 words on day five of my (re)started 2,000 words a day plan. This morning,Continue reading “Falling falling falling…”
Another slip but a two day streak I’d like to keep alive despite the holidays
I only wrote 1,007 words yesterday. My accept-no-excuses attitude obviously needs work. I had a raging headache yesterday and never really got moving on my words until it got late, and then couldn’t stick it out when I got sleepy. On the other hand, I wrote 1,007 words and that means I have a twoContinue reading “Another slip but a two day streak I’d like to keep alive despite the holidays”
Finally getting this thing off the ground
Today I wrote 2,069 words. That’s the first time I’ve reached 2,000 words since I (re)started my 2,000 words a day plan. Now, so that I don’t mess up tomorrow, I’m posting this and going to bed. :-) It’s after midnight and I need sleep!
Another fail but I’m not giving up
So yesterday, day two of my no-excuses-accepted plan to write 2,000 words a day, was a fail. Stuff happened, but I can in all honesty say that I still should have gotten those words written, and that’s not me being too hard on myself. That’s me being honest. I wrote a mere 538 words ofContinue reading “Another fail but I’m not giving up”
September 2019 progress
September passed much too quickly. I wanted to finish more projects in September and it didn’t happen. September words: 24,609. I did keep my “no more zero word days” streak alive. Yesterday marked 62 days of daily writing. But there were a few days there when I’m not sure I like how I did it.Continue reading “September 2019 progress”
August 2019 progress
I had a nice recovery in August. Not a fantastic word count for the month by any means, but a vast improvement over June and July. In fact, in August, I wrote more words than in June and July combined. I finally finished a short story I started a few months back, and started anotherContinue reading “August 2019 progress”
No more zero word days—day 12
Notes on the challenge: Only true zero word days count as zero word days, meaning— Negative numbers aren’t zero word days because they just indicate that I deleted more than I wrote. I don’t want oodles of negative word days, because forward progress matters a lot more than just logging a number that isn’t aContinue reading “No more zero word days—day 12”
July 2019 progress
Summary of my July 2019 progress toward my writing goals.
Fiction writing log: August 2, 2019
Still trying to think up an interesting and fun challenge for myself. In the meantime, my attempt to be more workman like with my writing did not fare as well on the second of August. I fell far short of my goal, and even though I was away for several hours, I could have madeContinue reading “Fiction writing log: August 2, 2019”
Fiction writing log: August 1, 2019
I’m trying to think up an interesting and fun challenge for myself. In the meantime, my attempt to be more workman like with my writing is going well. I fell short of the 3 to 6 hour goal, but I had a five hour commitment today, so I’m pretty happy with my 2 hours ofContinue reading “Fiction writing log: August 1, 2019”
Days 28–30 of NANO 2018
Days 28–30: I wrote 0 words for the NANO book. I finished out NANO with 20,368 words. I really meant to do better but I got wrapped up in finishing the project I set aside to work on the NANO book and in the end I can’t regret that. Finishing is important. In fact, finishingContinue reading “Days 28–30 of NANO 2018”
Days 24–27 of NANO 2018
Days 24–27: I wrote 0 words for the NANO book. I have 20,368 words for NANO this year so far. I do think I’ll get a few more because I’m absolutely planning to write today, tomorrow, and Friday. But I ended up finishing up my finished book instead of focusing on the NANO book andContinue reading “Days 24–27 of NANO 2018”
Days 20–23 of NANO 2018
I wish it weren’t so, but I have fallen terribly far behind on my NANO goals. All it took was a week and a half of less than good writing days and suddenly I need 29,620 words to finish and I need them in eight days (seven if you don’t count today, and I can’tContinue reading “Days 20–23 of NANO 2018”
Day 19 of NANO 2018
Day 19: I wrote 1,109 words for the NANO book (1,299 words total for all my fiction). I’d talk about the day but really there’s nothing to say. It was a day. I wrote some. I wish I’d been more focused and written more. I also wish I wasn’t dealing with being sick. And thatContinue reading “Day 19 of NANO 2018”
Day 18 of NANO 2018
Day 18: I wrote 740 words for the NANO book (754 words total for all my fiction). Those word counts are nowhere near what I wanted for the day but I’ll take what I can get right now. Hopefully, day 19 will be better! I should have more time alone which means I should beContinue reading “Day 18 of NANO 2018”
Day 17 of NANO 2018
Not only did I not have time to write until nearly 4 pm, after that I was sick. Well, I was sick before that, too, but I was also not here and had no opportunity to write before then. The vertigo returned, probably because of continued sinus and ear problems. All I’m going to sayContinue reading “Day 17 of NANO 2018”
Day 16 of NANO 2018
I woke up this morning with a big chunk of backstory for the nano book in my head. I also had some bits of scenes that I might want to use for the current part of the story, but we’ll see. As for now, I’m going to spend the afternoon sitting in front of myContinue reading “Day 16 of NANO 2018”
Day 15 of NANO 2018
Day 15: I wrote 496 words for the NANO book (1,569 words total for all my fiction). I really did plan to write more for the NANO book today after I finished my other book (which I did, so YAY!), but in the end I think I was just too tired after all the writingContinue reading “Day 15 of NANO 2018”