Weekly Goals: First full week of NaNo

[vintagewitch]

 

Today's Word Count: 2,371
Total Word Count: 6,686

And with that, I'm officially caught up! Plus I spent a looooong time today rewriting my curriculum and therefore the outline of this grimoire. I am going to go celebrate by reading something silly.

I also wanted to check in with all of you - since November got started, our chats have slowed down which I'm assuming is because we are all busy typing away. I am an Extremely Type A person, and so I love setting weekly goals.

My weekly goals: 

1. Finish the introduction
2. Finish the "abbreviated history of 20th century witchcraft" section
3. Maintain the traditional "1,667 words per day", ending up with 15k+ by Sunday

What about you all? 

Comments

[andersenmom]

I don't have that much forethought! At the moment, I just hope to make it all make sense and have them all involved and too many threads to deal with.

Yeah, I've been writing like mad all day, and my mind has nothing left to work with.

[caszabrewin]

At a meer 4k, but lost the 2nd and 3rd to visiting family and Tuesday I came down with a virus, that I beat away enough yesterday to make my word count and then some. But, this is typical for me, I get behind, I get caught up and rinse repeat.

[caszabrewin]

The project I'm working on was a NaNo from like 2010 (can't recall exactly), and it is the second in a series of books I wrote; yet I wrote it third and I also experimented with my process and it's taken me two years (sporadically) to get this book back in some semblance of order. I discovered I missed key plot points and went off on a huge like 15k tangent that was not worth keeping (it's been put aside for whatever I'm not sure). But I have more than 6k written to fix all the problems and probably need another 20k. Then I have to start revising another book. If I can get these two books revised and out to beta readers by December 1, I will have met my goal. And I will never ever experiment with my writing process. It is what it is and that's good.

I've been in a writing drought since about 2016. I would dabble, get some spurts and then not touch things for weeks, sometimes months. Then pick it back up. My life has gone through huge turbulence sine Dec. 7, 2016 and it feels like I'm getting my groove back.

Once again, NaNo helps me focus and I'm grateful.

[twistingthetale]

I've been writing every day but didn't get as much done on Tuesday and Wednesday as I'd have liked, however I have managed to get ahead slightly since then. At the end of Day 8 I'm at a total of 16128, so very happy at the moment :) I'm expecting next Tuesday and Wednesday to dip again as I'll have other things to do, but will see how it goes.