Check In Day 8

[fleetsparrow]

It's a bit later than I meant to get this posted.  Let's get to it, shall we?

Poll #32503

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Wednesday Writing, Won't We?

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We will!
3 (33.3%)

We won't.
1 (11.1%)

We... wan wout wof "w" words....
3 (33.3%)

D. None of the above
2 (22.2%)

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?

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[deifire]

Call it a wash and catch up when I can.

[linaewen]

As expected, Wednesday was a no go for writing. I am hoping today will prove more amenable!

I am a master at procrastinating, so when I can't make my goal, I call it a wash and reset when I am able.

[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 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 getyourwordsout, which obviously has its own temporal logic that can't be fudged!

[fleetsparrow]

Honestly, a very solid plan. Definitely better than guilting yourself over not meeting goals. Ask me how I know.

[fleetsparrow]

Good wishes for writing time!!

Such a good idea. Considering that I have at times procrastinated procrastinating... I think I need to try this "calling it a wash and resetting" fr.

[fleetsparrow]

I hope it was the "I'm so into this idea, I gotta get it finished!" form of staying up till 3 and not so much the "we are going to get this done if it kills me" form. And also that you got some good sleep!

Yeahhhhhhhh, this past year was the Year of Dropping Every Challenge for me. On one hand, it did kind of solidify that my current plan needs to be "Do Not Sign Up" (as I've been trying to do for the past... 3-4 years???). On the other... Well, if I had a nickel for every time I left an exchange/challenge fic unfinished, I'd have... so much money, tbh.

Hello, fellow habit tracker! I'm doing the 120 goal after being successful at it last year (which was pretty good for me, considering it was the first time I'd tried a Habit pledge instead of wordcount, *and* that was during a Wild Year). I can feel the lowkey dread of the "running out of time" variety creeping up (which was the real reason I'm stopping fic challenges) already, but I'm hoping that will start quieting down once the rest of my nervous system re-regulates itself.

[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.