January writing check-in
Feb. 2nd, 2019 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
halojedhaHello, happy Saturday! I did my first ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
getyourwordsout check-in, hooray!
Words in January: 8271
Pledge monthly goal: 6370 (assuming I can write the same number of words every month this year)
Personal monthly goal: 10000 (adjusted to take into account baby in July)
So I'm ahead of the pledge goal (woop woop!) and not quite up to my personal goal (I wrote another 1230 words on the 1st, so if I sneakily count that as January, that bring my total to 9501). Not bad since I didn't join the challenge until the 14th.
All of that work was on the non-fiction book (yay!). I'm thrilled that I've managed to get out of the big-runup-and-then-binge way of working. Being able to sit down for an hour and just write is incredibly freeing, and it actually means it fits into my life. I'm finding afternoon and evening are the best times, rather than morning - mornings are still slow for me, what with all the pregnancy stuff.
Project progress:
Words: 32518
Chapters: 6.5
Chapters remaining: 18.5
If I continue at the current words-per-chapter rate, the finished draft is going to be 130 000 words. Which is long for a non-fiction book, even one that's half memoir and half discussion. I'm not looking forward to editing if I have to basically cut half of it. But until the whole thing is finished, I don't know what's relevant and what isn't. And as I write it, I may find that some of the later chapters or sections I have planned can be cut, because I've already made those points. I'm tending to make points the first time they come up, so there might end up being a lot of rearranging later. (I'm imagining myself on the floor, surrounded by post-its, crying.) Aaaand most importantly, if I start self-censoring as I write I'll clam up, so the best thing to do for now is just open the floodgates, and get the red pen out later.
As well as the lightly-held goal of reaching my annual pledge of 75000 words by the time the baby arrives in July (if I don't, I'm sure I can get some more words out towards the end of the year, even if I take a few months off from writing over the summer), I also have my eye on the finished first draft. Getting to the end of draft zero before the baby arrives, is... probably too ambitious? But it's in sight, if not in reach.
getyourwordsout check-in, hooray!Words in January: 8271
Pledge monthly goal: 6370 (assuming I can write the same number of words every month this year)
Personal monthly goal: 10000 (adjusted to take into account baby in July)
So I'm ahead of the pledge goal (woop woop!) and not quite up to my personal goal (I wrote another 1230 words on the 1st, so if I sneakily count that as January, that bring my total to 9501). Not bad since I didn't join the challenge until the 14th.
All of that work was on the non-fiction book (yay!). I'm thrilled that I've managed to get out of the big-runup-and-then-binge way of working. Being able to sit down for an hour and just write is incredibly freeing, and it actually means it fits into my life. I'm finding afternoon and evening are the best times, rather than morning - mornings are still slow for me, what with all the pregnancy stuff.
Project progress:
Words: 32518
Chapters: 6.5
Chapters remaining: 18.5
If I continue at the current words-per-chapter rate, the finished draft is going to be 130 000 words. Which is long for a non-fiction book, even one that's half memoir and half discussion. I'm not looking forward to editing if I have to basically cut half of it. But until the whole thing is finished, I don't know what's relevant and what isn't. And as I write it, I may find that some of the later chapters or sections I have planned can be cut, because I've already made those points. I'm tending to make points the first time they come up, so there might end up being a lot of rearranging later. (I'm imagining myself on the floor, surrounded by post-its, crying.) Aaaand most importantly, if I start self-censoring as I write I'll clam up, so the best thing to do for now is just open the floodgates, and get the red pen out later.
As well as the lightly-held goal of reaching my annual pledge of 75000 words by the time the baby arrives in July (if I don't, I'm sure I can get some more words out towards the end of the year, even if I take a few months off from writing over the summer), I also have my eye on the finished first draft. Getting to the end of draft zero before the baby arrives, is... probably too ambitious? But it's in sight, if not in reach.