January writing report
This year, in addition to the Write Every Day crew, I joined the getyourwordsout lj community with a goal of writing 150,000 words this year. I am not sure about how realistic that is - but I expect it is emminantly doable. In the past I have posted 80k-100k a year on ao3, but that does not include the words that I wrote and deleted or wrote and never posted. So, so far pretty cool.
Anyway, above you see my graph for January so I am right on track! I had three days where I wrote zero words. I wrote and posted a fic for Minority Report (and started another one but it is not posted), I added a chapter to a hydra agent OC fic, I wrote a draft (a terrible icky draft) of Chapter 1 and half of chapter 2 of Spero - the working title for my MG space fic that is for my kids, I wrote a bunch of flashfic for a class I took, one of which I will be submitting to Daily Science Fiction sometime maybe in the next month, and I started a story for this: http://sevenscribes.com/announcing-the-seven-scribes-fiction-call/. That one is an original vampire hunting story. (Clearly I am watching too much Supernatural) We'll see if I can get that to gel.
I also got scrivener ! Officially I got it for a work project but ... ;) And I am really liking working in that. The Beyond Ourselves story is in scrivener. I have not moved Spero into it yet.
And the best part? This tracking thing is really neat. Unlike the last couple of years when I got into a post-Yuletide funk that I did not get out of until NPT, this year I am feeling pretty good about writing. And another cool part- it occured to me somewhere in the last year I went from thinking of myself as someone who writes stories sometimes, to being a writer. I am not sure when that happened, but trying to write every day has made a huge difference in my perception of me. so that is kinda cool!
Looking forward, things I am eying.
Beyond Ourselves - Due March 1
jukebox_fest Due - due May 28
Les mis BB
24-31st Feb 2016: Writers check-in
27th Mar 2016: Rough drafts and summaries due (at least 50% complete)
28th May 2016: Posting starts!