GYWO 2011 and Word Count Finagling Through February
I have about a million papers to write and I keep finding excuses to do other things (at least one of the other things has been doing various readings that are ALSO for class, but it still feels like procrastination), so here I am. Hopefully this won't take too much time.
Last year, I pledged 250k and wrote over 350k. So for this year, I pledged 300k. That is starting to look like a goal FAR loftier than I will be able to reach. It's not even March, and I'm already constantly thinking "well maybe I'll be able to catch up in the summer." The semester has left me so that even when I have free time, I feel too emotionally drained to write. Writing ends up looking like a chore, and not something I do for fun. Or if not that, I end up with this apathetic feeling that any words I put down would be shit, so I just won't put down words.
I should have 50k written by tomorrow. Hell fucking no am I anywhere near that goal. I also completely skipped doing this in January, so I'll be scraping together anything from that month into this tally as well.
I have realized that the haiku I frequently pen do count as writing, and that I'm pretty sure GYWO allows poetry as well as prose. They'll be minuscule word counts, since they're maybe 15-20 words a pop, but even that is something.
-Beneficence - 213 words
-Composed - 303 words
-Bubblegum Dreams - 223 words
-Down A Peg - 284 words
-Coveted Privilege - 275 words
-The Trial - 275 words
-City in Monochrome - 278 words
-The Rules - 355 words
-Midnight Snack - 336 words
-Chivalry Paralyzed - 289 words
-The Time of Yearning - 304 words
-A Disguise Most Enjoyable - 309 words
-A Thing or Two About Running - 364 words
-A Dream That Would Never Be - 451 words
-Neat and Measured - 248 words
-Truth Etched, Stare Painted - 339 words
-Cruising By In the Night - 297 words
-008 - A Last Dessert - 425 words
-009 - Warmth Not Artificial - 526 words
-010 - Bliss - 614 words
-009 - Flick of the Wrist - 3,448 words
-Crawl Inside - 2,305 words
-Cubicle Minefield - 1,007 words
-Scheduled Accidents - 998 words
-Bonding Fic Scene One - 794 words
TOTAL THUS FAR: 15,260 words
The majority of these were bits of flash fiction written for neopets writing contests I've held. A couple are little pieces of fanfiction. Crawl Inside was written for a prompt ganked off of a livejournal community that I'm not actually a member of. And Cubicle Minefield and Scheduled Accidents were both written for the character challenge on GYWO. I have two more things I intend to write for that challenge, I guess sometime in March if I have a little more free time.
The haiku I write are scattered between the five notebooks I take to my five different classes, the notebook I'm filling with odds and ends as a present to Ven, and the little notebook I keep in my purse at pretty much all times. I think there are also a couple in the notepad on my phone. I'll probably type them all into a document at some point in March and include them for that tally. The word count will be small, but I think it's worth doing, just like tallying my flash fiction is worth doing.
I think this year I might actually count my RP posts. I didn't last year, because I didn't need them to make my total. But if my counts are still waaaay behind by like... June I guess, I'll go through my RP documents and see how that looks. It's within the GYWO rules, and they ARE narrative-style writing. So there it is.
I wish I could write now, but it's off to papers and that reading for class tomorrow. Sigh. It's lame, because for once I feel like whatever I put down might be worthwhile, and I really can't afford to spare the time.
Last year, I pledged 250k and wrote over 350k. So for this year, I pledged 300k. That is starting to look like a goal FAR loftier than I will be able to reach. It's not even March, and I'm already constantly thinking "well maybe I'll be able to catch up in the summer." The semester has left me so that even when I have free time, I feel too emotionally drained to write. Writing ends up looking like a chore, and not something I do for fun. Or if not that, I end up with this apathetic feeling that any words I put down would be shit, so I just won't put down words.
I should have 50k written by tomorrow. Hell fucking no am I anywhere near that goal. I also completely skipped doing this in January, so I'll be scraping together anything from that month into this tally as well.
I have realized that the haiku I frequently pen do count as writing, and that I'm pretty sure GYWO allows poetry as well as prose. They'll be minuscule word counts, since they're maybe 15-20 words a pop, but even that is something.
-Beneficence - 213 words
-Composed - 303 words
-Bubblegum Dreams - 223 words
-Down A Peg - 284 words
-Coveted Privilege - 275 words
-The Trial - 275 words
-City in Monochrome - 278 words
-The Rules - 355 words
-Midnight Snack - 336 words
-Chivalry Paralyzed - 289 words
-The Time of Yearning - 304 words
-A Disguise Most Enjoyable - 309 words
-A Thing or Two About Running - 364 words
-A Dream That Would Never Be - 451 words
-Neat and Measured - 248 words
-Truth Etched, Stare Painted - 339 words
-Cruising By In the Night - 297 words
-008 - A Last Dessert - 425 words
-009 - Warmth Not Artificial - 526 words
-010 - Bliss - 614 words
-009 - Flick of the Wrist - 3,448 words
-Crawl Inside - 2,305 words
-Cubicle Minefield - 1,007 words
-Scheduled Accidents - 998 words
-Bonding Fic Scene One - 794 words
TOTAL THUS FAR: 15,260 words
The majority of these were bits of flash fiction written for neopets writing contests I've held. A couple are little pieces of fanfiction. Crawl Inside was written for a prompt ganked off of a livejournal community that I'm not actually a member of. And Cubicle Minefield and Scheduled Accidents were both written for the character challenge on GYWO. I have two more things I intend to write for that challenge, I guess sometime in March if I have a little more free time.
The haiku I write are scattered between the five notebooks I take to my five different classes, the notebook I'm filling with odds and ends as a present to Ven, and the little notebook I keep in my purse at pretty much all times. I think there are also a couple in the notepad on my phone. I'll probably type them all into a document at some point in March and include them for that tally. The word count will be small, but I think it's worth doing, just like tallying my flash fiction is worth doing.
I think this year I might actually count my RP posts. I didn't last year, because I didn't need them to make my total. But if my counts are still waaaay behind by like... June I guess, I'll go through my RP documents and see how that looks. It's within the GYWO rules, and they ARE narrative-style writing. So there it is.
I wish I could write now, but it's off to papers and that reading for class tomorrow. Sigh. It's lame, because for once I feel like whatever I put down might be worthwhile, and I really can't afford to spare the time.