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9000 Words – Day 10

jason — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:47:16 +0000

Due to getting to writing time too late, I’ve missed more days. I didn’t manage to catch up fully tonight, but did get past my daily goal. Part of me wants to drop this story and work on a different one, which is also part of why I’ve not kept up with my writing. I’m holding myself to it so far.

9000 Words – Day 7

jason — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:55:04 +0000

Ok. More time away from writing, but I’m caught up. 900 words in one day. True it’s not much for a more experienced writer, but it’s a lot for me so I’ve got nothing else to say tonight.

9000 Words – Day 4

jason — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:30:57 +0000

Skipped a day, but have made up for it (in spite of a nasty headache). I know as I’m writing that I’ll need to go back and rewrite just about everything, but the point of this draft is just to get all the ideas out in something like the right order.

9000 Words – Day 2

jason — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:44:53 +0000

Ok. Upping the goal to 300 words a day for 30 days. This time around though I’m limiting myself (as best I can) to working on one story which I hope to have done by the end of the month. Next month I may then give NaNoWriMo a shot, but I don’t want to get ahead of myself. So, for now, here comes the return of the word counter:

a break and back

jason — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:10:13 +0000

And just like that, three days without writing. I do need to come up with a new goal bigger than just a single day. I don’t have it yet though so today I just did more than my current daily goal.

For today’s writing I started up a new story. I plan to make this story my primary focus until I get it done. We’ll see how long I manage to hold myself to that and if I can even get myself back on track with writing each day.

-Daily Goal-

506

of 250
words written

habitual

jason — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:48:50 +0000

I missed yesterday so made up for it today even though I’m not going for some overarching count. I almost didn’t get any writing done tonight due to a long work day, hence the really late post time. I took a shower just before bed though and that washed all the crud out of the gears as it so often does.

I put all of today’s words into the prose piece. I’m finally seeing the shape of it.

-Daily Goal-

550

of 250
words written

Words and more words

jason — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:04:39 +0000

My goal is now 250 words a day, just because. I’ve also come up with a very basic, more graphical way to show my daily count. Yay, css styling.

-Daily Goal-

271

of 250
words written

Aimless Prose

jason — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:36:14 +0000

Just some writing on some aimless prose, though I think it fits into the story I’m working on. Given the nature of the story it is well served, at least at this nascent stage, by random bits of prose. I can patch them all together later.

306 words today. I’m thinking of upping my daily goal to at least 250 words or maybe 300, but we’ll see how the follow-up at the doctor’s office goes tomorrow.

I still need to find a pleasing graphical way to present my daily count that isn’t tied to an overall goal. (I also need to better learn where the apostrophe key is so as I type in the dark I don’t keep putting in semicolons instead.)

Just Write

jason — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:15:22 +0000

Just did a bit of random prose writing today, not towards anything, just putting down words.

265 words though so a bit more. I need to find a new graphic to use here to total up what I’ve written.

6000 Words – Days 29 & 30!

jason — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:11:22 +0000

The end, but only of the beginning. I missed writing last night, but made up for it tonight, then as I started totaling up realized that I’d been ahead and only needed to put in 201 words tonight. Anyway, spent some time on the prose story this time.

For the time being I’m sticking to 200 words a day as my goal. I’m leaving it open ended, but will be posting a daily total.