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Milestones
Sep. 21st, 2016 09:54 pmI spent a few minutes this evening updating my word count spreadsheet, which had recently fallen by the wayside, and I'm very glad I did.
At a total of 6K words, posting The Wrong Kind of Snow has put me over two somewhat related milestones. I'm now up to 104,823 words of fiction I've written this year, which is, like woah.
When people started talking about Get Your Words Out goals at the beginning of the year, I looked at the targets and I laughed and laughed. And then I cried. Even the 75K disability goal, if I counted anxiety and stress migraines and toddlers, seemed completely out of reach. But hey, look at me! Over 100K, it's September, and I'm still planning to do NaNoWriMo... I could have signed up for the 150K goal after all!
Possibly more importantly to me, I'm up to 101,916 words I've actually finished and posted this year. (Yes, I started the year with about 12K words already written on things I've since posted, but that's possibly even harder for me than writing new stuff to post.)
Go. Me.
I think I'm particularly proud of the ratio, because my real goal when I started the year--and the eventual reason I decided not to sign up for GYWO because writing more words was not actually what I wanted to focus on--was to stop half-writing things, stop hoarding and chewing on them forever, to finish writing them and to get them the fuck out of my head. Because it's pretty damned crowded in here, what with the plot bunnies and the brain weasels and trying to remember my kids' names and all.
Discovering that I've passed such a massive milestone in both at exactly the same time makes me pretty bloody pleased. And I've been making progress on long term writing projects which are not postable as yet, so I'm totally chuffed. If I can finish off Futureproof, keep up the flashworks, AND do NaNoWriMo, which is still my at least moderately realistic goal, the two might even finish the year not too far apart--but with words I've let go in the lead. Now that's a goal to strive for.
So, now I'm finished the latest flashwork, it's time to put my nose back into Futureproof. There are seriously only five scenes left that I am deeply unhappy with and/or are absent because I was deeply unhappy with them and in posession of a delete key. Five. A couple of them are big scenes, all are central to a dodgy point in some plot thread that runs through the whole story, but still. Five.
Move it, Lily. Even if all you do is paste wallpaper over them and whistle loudly enough that nobody notices.
At a total of 6K words, posting The Wrong Kind of Snow has put me over two somewhat related milestones. I'm now up to 104,823 words of fiction I've written this year, which is, like woah.
When people started talking about Get Your Words Out goals at the beginning of the year, I looked at the targets and I laughed and laughed. And then I cried. Even the 75K disability goal, if I counted anxiety and stress migraines and toddlers, seemed completely out of reach. But hey, look at me! Over 100K, it's September, and I'm still planning to do NaNoWriMo... I could have signed up for the 150K goal after all!
Possibly more importantly to me, I'm up to 101,916 words I've actually finished and posted this year. (Yes, I started the year with about 12K words already written on things I've since posted, but that's possibly even harder for me than writing new stuff to post.)
Go. Me.
I think I'm particularly proud of the ratio, because my real goal when I started the year--and the eventual reason I decided not to sign up for GYWO because writing more words was not actually what I wanted to focus on--was to stop half-writing things, stop hoarding and chewing on them forever, to finish writing them and to get them the fuck out of my head. Because it's pretty damned crowded in here, what with the plot bunnies and the brain weasels and trying to remember my kids' names and all.
Discovering that I've passed such a massive milestone in both at exactly the same time makes me pretty bloody pleased. And I've been making progress on long term writing projects which are not postable as yet, so I'm totally chuffed. If I can finish off Futureproof, keep up the flashworks, AND do NaNoWriMo, which is still my at least moderately realistic goal, the two might even finish the year not too far apart--but with words I've let go in the lead. Now that's a goal to strive for.
So, now I'm finished the latest flashwork, it's time to put my nose back into Futureproof. There are seriously only five scenes left that I am deeply unhappy with and/or are absent because I was deeply unhappy with them and in posession of a delete key. Five. A couple of them are big scenes, all are central to a dodgy point in some plot thread that runs through the whole story, but still. Five.
Move it, Lily. Even if all you do is paste wallpaper over them and whistle loudly enough that nobody notices.
