As discussed on my soon to publish podcast and on the Kindle Chronicles podcast, I am holding myself to some new writing goals. When I wake up, I go immediately to the keyboard and write for 30 minutes with the goal of getting 281 words of first draft fiction written a day, every day. This doesn’t count blogging or any of the other words I type in a day, only potentially publishable fiction.
If you multiply this out, I’m shooting for 2,000 words a week. If I can do this each and every week, that’s a novel or a novel equivalent every year. The goals are so modest as to be trivial and thus far have been quite achievable.
I only started this on Thursday, so I have three days under my belt. Those have been 386, 551, and 570 so I have just over 1500 on the week, even with the week having a three day head start on me. For any week I fall short of the 2,000 words I will spend my Sunday evening making them up but it looks like that might not be common. Here’s hoping.
I think as part of my public accountability/working in public, each Sunday evening I will post here what the weekly word count was coming into the evening and whether or not I have makeup work to do. Maybe no one cares that much, but holding myself to account helps keep it all working. Here we go!
281words? Why the odd number? Just curious…
As I state a few sentences later “If you multiply this out, I’m shooting for 2,000 words a week. “
Oh, duh. I blame superficial phone reading. At least I got “281.” 🙂
No problems. The words are flowing pretty well right now. We will see what happens when I outrun the stories I’ve been thinking about for years.
I care. You GO. Hugs
Thank you, dear. There have been really long interruptions (like decades) but this was never something I didn’t want to do, just something I wasn’t doing. I need to bridge that gap – always smaller than it seems – from desire to action.
Well, good luck with it! (Okay, not much luck involved. “Good resolve to you.”)
I like “Good resolve.” Of course week 1 is easy, week 1 of anything is easy. You’ve got all the enthusiasm and endorphins. It’s week 17 and week 41 you have to worry about.