WIP Challenge: Tuesday (Day 27)

[psyco_chick32]

Good morning, everybody!  We're at five days and counting (well, as I type this, from my time zone, that is) to the end of the month, and for some that means frantically rushing to meet deadlines, whether self-imposed or as part of a challenge.

So, how do you keep track of word count?  Do you have a super-awesome spreadsheet?  Do you look back at archives?  Kind of estimate?

Poll #9989 Productivity!

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What did you do today?

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Researched stuff
1 (20.0%)

Wrote actual words!
3 (60.0%)

Posted stuff - go me!
1 (20.0%)

Um, well, about that...
2 (40.0%)

Read words (that totally counts)
1 (20.0%)

I'm just here for the tickey boxes.
0 (0.0%)

Also, please take this time to publicly flog me for slacking oh so badly on my big bang, which is due next month.

Comments

[crowdog66]

I finished and posted a new ~2300-word chapter of "Impulse"; it's only taken me ~12,000 words to get to the sexytiems. I hope my readers are pleased! :)

As for word counts, Scrivener posts a count at the bottom of each document, so with a bit of basic bookkeeping I can keep track of how many words I produce each day. Today it was around 1500.

[roane]

OMG. I just downloaded a trial of Scrivener tonight. I might be in love. My word count was low today in part because I was getting everything plugged in to it. :)

[psyco_chick32]

Congrats!!! :D I hope you get lots of great reviews!

*nods* I do the same with Microsoft Word - how do you like Scrivener, outside of the word count feature?

[crowdog66]

I absolutely adore Scrivener: it's by far the best WP program I've ever used, and contains just about every feature I could ask for. Nowadays I don't use anything else.

[insignia]

The plans for my main WIPs are going through such massive renovations that I can't describe my progress at all. I'm sure I won't meet my goal, though: I set a word count target this time, and since I have to rethink what I even want in these stories, forcing out a draft based on old plans isn't going to help me. Oh, well.

[psyco_chick32]

Oh, geez, I've been there before. One of my fics has gone in about eight different directions since I've started >.<;;

Best of luck figuring out where to take things!

[lullabymoon]

1150 words which I'm not entirely sure how I managed, given that it was only one and a bit scenes. I'm at that stage where it feels like it's going to be never ending, despite the fact it's only really one scene left to do. Panicking slightly now because it's due on Saturday and there is still so much left to do. I've started the editing notes and I have a spell tomorrow that I can work on it so it's not full scale panic yet but I need to go take a deep breath before this sentence gets any longer!

[psyco_chick32]

Go Go Go!!! You can do it! Sit back, take a deep breath, and JUMP <3