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Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 20:48
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It's a bit later than I meant to get this posted.  Let's get to it, shall we?

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Wednesday Writing, Won't We?

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We will!
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We won't.
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We... wan wout wof "w" words....
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D. None of the above
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I'm so sorry

Speaking of being behind, let's talk about that!

Discussion time:  If you set daily/weekly/etc. goals for your writing, what do you do if and when you get behind?  Do you add what didn't get done onto the next time segment?  Do you call it a wash and reset at some point?

Date: Thursday, January 9th, 2025 14:15 (UTC)
almach: edmund pevensie in armor, with a lion crest on a pink backdrop (Default)
From: [personal profile] almach

I wrote about 1300 words and finished a rough draft! And stayed up until 3 AM to do it. Oops.

I usually set goals of the "finish this scene/chapter/fic" variety rather than specific word count goals, so anything I don't get done just rolls over to the next day or week. If I miss a deadline to submit something for a fic fest/challenge I usually just leave the WIP perma-unfinished and move on to something else, tbh... I would like to do less of that and circle back around to finish more of those for amnesty periods (I think I have almost a dozen partially written ficlets for [community profile] fan_flashworks), but I haven't made it a priority. The one long-running goal I have is my year-long "write on at least 180 days" with [community profile] getyourwordsout, which obviously has its own temporal logic that can't be fudged!

Date: Friday, January 10th, 2025 14:47 (UTC)
almach: edmund pevensie in armor, with a lion crest on a pink backdrop (Default)
From: [personal profile] almach

Ha, it was the "we are going to get this done if it kills me" of an exchange deadline, but on some level I have to admit I inflict that on myself because I like it. And I did get some good sleep when all was said and done!

Congrats on meeting your GYWO goal last year :D I tried a word count pledge a couple years ago and ended up dropping out because the tracking got to be too overwhelming (lots of small projects), so I'm optimistic that the habit pledge will be a better fit. I have a "write 4 days a week" goal set up in a habit tracker mobile app I use for lots of miscellaneous habits; my thinking is, if I meet that goal more weeks than not, then I'll "automatically" hit 180 days for the year.

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