Today is my 100th day of writing daily. Honestly, I am as surprised as anyone (including the first grade teacher who thought I was illiterate–take that!). I thought that for sure I would’ve screwed up on Easter or just flat-out forgotten at some point. And yet here we are, and I totally did not write 80,000 words of fanfic (seriously! I did serious stuff too!).
And overall, I’m happy with what I did. Unfortunately, I didn’t keep a record of how many words per day exactly I did between days 31 and 92, so I can’t give exact stats. But I did start a new novel, finish a short story, and yes, wrote a lot of fanfic.
But I realized that some of my other general life goals were kind of being forgotten. Mainly I realized that I was becoming one of those pale little geeks who never sleeps and never leaves the house. So I’m going to try to bike or walk at least 3 times a week and hopefully lose ten pounds by the time I’m at a year of writing daily. Which I realize isn’t a lot, being something like .3 pounds/week, but I’m not like Biggest Loser-fat or anything (thank you very much) and I like reachable goals. Also I’m going to try to not put of my writing until 10:30 at night, because then I don’t get to sleep until 1 or 2 in the morning. I’d like to turn off my laptop by 10:30 or 11 and then be asleep by midnight.
Yeah, let’s see how that goes.
So good luck on your writing, and here’s to another, let’s see what the sidebar says…8 months of writing before I hit a year? Damn.
Congratulations and nice job! I’ve only been writing mine for two weeks and I’ve still skipped both weekends so far haha.
Thanks! And some people work better on a weekly schedule (maybe where you skip weekends) but I’ve found that for me a work-week type schedule means I push stuff off until Friday and then don’t do it at all.
Wow, a year of writing? Good luck! Don’t let yourself get too hung up on the words per day, though. That you’ve done it is enough, isn’t it?
Thanks! I try not to be too caught up on word count, but I do want to do at least 300 words a day. I think you need at least a little to get warmed up and I don’t want to fall into the habit of writing two sentences, watching YouTube and calling it a writing day. Also its kind of fun to look at it afterward and see on what day of the week you wrote the most, on what project, etc.
Amazing job – go you!
Thank you!
Yay! Congrats on 100 days, and welcome to the AM club.
Haha, well congrats on the triple digits
Oh gosh, my goal is to sleep by midnight as well…but that rarely happens. No matter how hard I try 
My best bet would be to throw my computer out the window lol.
Yeah, as soon as I discovered YouTube it was all over.
Congratulations! You deserve a little celebration today. Make sure you walk around looking incredibly pleased, and if anyone asks you what’s wrong, you must smugly inform them it is because you are “a success”. Smugness always cheers me up! Wishing you the best of luck with the rest of your goals too.
(Like you, I’ve got into a terrible habit of starting to write around 10:30, thinking “ooh, half an hour or so”, and by the time I’m shutting down, it’s gone 1. Very bad habit. I’m going to join you in your effort, and aim to be a little more disciplined)
I started the “Writing Daily” thing to try to cut down on my procrastination. But I think it’s gone from long-term putting things off to daily putting things off. Good luck on the attempting sleep!
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