GYWO “Freedom Edition”: July 4, 2009
It’s time for the word count that I forgot to do on June 30th. I need to set some kind of reminder!
I started doing this at the beginning of the year, based on a Livejournal community doing the same thing. I missed the deadline by a few days :( so I decided to challenge myself to do it.
The idea is based upon the adage that only 10% of your material will be usable, and if that’s true then the only way to produce quality writing is to write more. So in order to write more … I uhm…. write. More.
Hence, Get Your Words Out.
What Counts?
For the structured program, any purposeful writing– blogs, snippets, drabbless, short stories, long form, etc.
For me, I count anything I wrote on purpose except for blog posts. And I don’t think I counted anything I wrote for the writing class, since they tended to only be a paragraph or two at most.
My Progress
I started the year with a goal of 200,000 words, mostly because I had just started really writing and wasn’t sure what I was capable of. It sounded like a good, lofty goal that I could work hard to achieve. Months later, I realized I was going to surpass my goal because I am, as they say in literary circles, wordy. *shrug*
I met my goal in May, and reset it to 300,000. I’ll just keep moving it until I hit December 31 and we’ll see where I end up. I plan to do NaNoWriMo this year so that will be 50,000 words– I’m sure to surpass 300.000 by November 30.
Let’s see where I am so far!
Goal: 300,000
Previous Count:249568
New Words: 18613
New Count: 268,271
Words to go: 31,729
I’m very excited about that number! \o/ It represents a lot, for me. Mostly that I am doing something I never thought I could do. And the more I do it, the better I will. get. HUZZAH!
Write on!
1 Tex In The Cityon 05 Jul 2009 at 8:02 PM link to this comment
Whoo to the hoo! Way to go Miss M!
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