Been working offline and forgetting to update, but here is my final word count. Managed to write every day, and that was my main goal for the month. Next step: increase my daily word count! Just keep swimming!
Outlining a new project with a very strict deadline, so the other will have to be moved to the back burner for now. But excited for this one!
Running tally since last update, mostly just updating my outline and character info docs, so I don’t contradict myself as I progress through the story.
Finally done playing catch up, ready to forge on full speed ahead.
Including the (admittedly very small) word counts for yesterday and the day before, when I was unwell. Time is estimated, because I didn’t keep track.
Just a really quick couple of last-minute sprints to get words in today.
Still in my “doing more research than writing” era, but little drops of water, little grains of sand…
Working through a migraine haze; hoping to do some more later tonight, but if not, at least there are words.
Spent most of the day hiking, and then napping after the hike, but managed to get a short sprint in just under the wire. Onwards and upwards!
Didn’t keep note of my time, because it was all research and note-taking today. But words is words! And I wrote them down, and am logging them, every day, which is my bare minimum goal anyway!
Set an alarm for myself this month to remind me to log my word count, so hopefully more consistent updates, not to mention the morale-boosting interactions with the community, cheering one another on and all, will be the proverbial wind beneath my wings. Or the carrot, or the stick, or some other useful metaphor.
Really quick sprint on this project; spent most of my time today in a burst of inspiration, world-building for another project that’s been percolating in my mind, and got the rest of my daily word count in on that, and then some. (Also, spent a bit too much time trying to remember the word “monogram”, which I take as a hint that my brain needs a break.)
Finding my most reliable way to get my word count is multiple sprints, instead of trying to do it all in one go, which usually has me losing momentum and spending too much time trying to think of the *exact* word I want, when that really is something I can do in the editing stage. Feels much more productive this way! Though it’s less productive when I wander off between sprints and forget what I was doing… Oopsie!
Didn’t get much done with the visitors around, but back in the saddle again! This chapter is really coming along well; very pleased with it.
