January Synopsis

14540 is the grand failure total of words for January, but I blame the fact that I was quite depressed for most of the month. I'm feeling a bit brighter this month, and getting a better idea of Captive (the 170,000 word novel of doom that I still have yet to finish), so I hope I'll actually start to catch up to my goal, and make up some for the bad last month. I can still do this! I just have to be more committed to it.

So far this month I've written around 6000 words. I'd have to triple that to reach my goal for today. I don't expect to get anything near that written today, but I hope a just adding a few more words a day can get me the distance. If I pretend I'm going for 100k like I did for NaNo and try for 3000 a day, I'll be in good shape!

Wordcount Widgets

These are my widgets: I'm using two of them, one for the full year, and one for the 50k goal for the month. So if you ever want to know just how far behind I am, I sometimes update these :)







Oh, and here's some links:
*Info on WriYe
*The Big Yellow Board
This is an optional part of WriYe, a year long workshop that I hope will help me get through my story!

Did someone say, . . 100K?

Doy. I just realized that I never posted on here about the end of NaNo! Well. . .

I got to 100k!! Specifically, I got 101,549 words, official grand total! I tried tweaking for that to end with a 47, but it just didn't happen. :)

Anyway, right now I'm trying to write poetry for the first time in weeks, and I think remembering I had yet to post this was an avoidance tactic, so I'm not going to spend too much time writing this. But I also wanted to mention that I'm signed up for WriYe next year, for 600,000 words for the whole year. That's 50,000 a month. A NaNo a month. Did I mention I'm also insane?

Anyway, I'm "choukuro" on the WriYe site, same as for NaNo, but without the space in the middle. Yep.

Kill me now?

Every time I judge a contest on allpoetry, I vow to never do it again, for the simple reason that NO ONE WHO ENTERS MY CONTEST KNOWS WHAT A POEM IS!!!! Ahem. Examples.

50,000 words!

I reached it yesterday before midnight, so that's 50k in fifteen days, and I only wrote 200 words each for two of those days. That means that in two weeks I've written 200 pages in a story which prior to this took me six years to write 330. Sigh. Makes me feel awesome and pathetic at the same time. But I'm aiming for 100k this year, so I should pass 300 easily as well, which is good, because my story is nowhere near done. For the first time every, I'm thinking about having to make it into two stories. Weird. Anyway, I still have to finish it, then rewrite the entire thing, so the decision time for that is way in the future. I just came here to brag. :)