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Very proud of myself for accomplishing this in this year alone!! Can’t wait to see the number go up further!! 💜
I can never just write a cute little caption to something, you are going to get a wall of text. I got word counts I have to make, it’s not for this but I still have to make them.
Been working on my self indulgent oc/self insert mk11 fic and just felt like sharing my progress. First chapter is over 5000 words and I'm wanting to keep that consistent for all chapters.
Btw, does anyone else get self-conscious about their word count? I always feel like my stuff reads too fast lol. Plus, I don't think I'm that great a writer, especially when it comes to description and such 😓 Like, I wanna have fun writing my big fics like this one, but then I start comparing my stuff to others and get frustrated even though I know I'm writing for myself for the most part. It also sucks because it takes so much energy for me to write.
bleh...
Word count in constitutions around the world.
by braziliangeopoliticalmaps
I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day, how that goal helped him write literally dozens of books before he died. So I reduced my own daily word goal. I went down from 1,000 to 200. With that 800-word wall taken down, I’ve been writing more. “I won’t get on tumblr/watch TV/draw/read until I hit my word goal” used to be something I said as self-restraint. And when I inevitably couldn’t cough up four pages in one sitting, I felt like garbage, and the pleasurable hobbies I had planned on felt like I was cheating myself when I just gave up. Now it’s something I say because I just have to finish this scene, just have to round out this conversation, can’t stop now, because I’m enjoying myself, I’m having an amazing time writing. Something that hasn’t been true of my original works since middle school.
And sometimes I think, “Well, two hundred is technically less than four hundred.” And I have to stop myself, because - I am writing half as much as Terry Pratchett. Terry fucking Pratchett, who not only published regularly up until his death, but published books that were consistently good.
And this has also been an immense help as a writer with ADHD, because I don’t feel bad when I take a break from writing - two hundred words works up quick, after all. If I take a break at 150, I have a whole day to write 50 more words, and I’ve rarely written less than 200 words and not felt the need to keep writing because I need to tie up a loose end anyways.
Yes, sometimes, I do not produce a single thing worth keeping in those two hundred words. But it’s much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all.
HOW CAN I READ 120k WORDS OF A FANFIC IN A DAY BUT CANT GET 20 PAGES INTO A NORMAL BOOK-
In case any of you are wondering how the script for my next review is going.
And I haven't even finished writing it yet.
Phew! The script for my next video is finally complete. Let's check on the word cou--AAAAAAAAAAA
Sellepärast on mul mu pisike sõnanorm, jup! Work less hard! Don’t work so hard, damn it! Take! It! Easy! You are doing great! More than great! AWESOME!!!!!!
Have created a new novel-writing approach for myself that I am calling Very Gentle Writing. Very Gentle Writing is an approach for people who live nearly every waking second in self-castigation and actually need peaceful slowness to unleash their creativity.
Very Gentle Writing does not set staggering word count goals and then feel bad about it. No! Very Gentle Writing for me sets an extremely low word count and then feels magnificently productive when the low bar is exceeded (which is easy…it’s a low bar, I mean really low).
Very Gentle Writing is about saying hey yo maybe I just want to listen to a chill playlist for a while and feel one sentence spill out. Go me!
Very Gentle Writing is kind of about realizing I have a really limited amount of time to write in between work, and adulting, and taking care of a thousand life responsibilities, and trying to heal&deal from trauma in 2020. So I want that writing time to be….just…..nice.
Very Gentle Writing means I have a goal of enjoying every single time I sit down to write. Really. I use all the fun words first.
Very Gentle Writing came to me as an idea when I started to think about how as someone actively trying to recover from a lot of lifelong trauma, the usual word harder!! Work harder!! mantras in the world of “people doing hard things” didn’t motivate me at all, they only hurt me. I truly need a voice saying work less hard, personally.
“I’ll just write a short oneshot— no more than 3,500 words,” said I,
ago
me: how many words have i written
is it a million
is it TWO million
word counter: 409 words
me: LIES
This Started As A Fucking Joke And Then I Wrote Seven Thousand Words
Can you please put warnings and word count on your fics? I like to read them but like to know what I’m getting myself into beforehand, and if it’s a long fic, I wanna be seated and ready 😇
haha my thing is like no warnings no plot premise idk why but i'll take this into consideration really sorry if it's been a bother
Tuesday, 24th of October 2023
Word Count: 11855
Written Today: 831
Songs: The Milk Carton by Madilyn Mei, We’ll Meet Again by Vera Lynn
Got to do dream scene which are one of my personal favorites to write. I'm 1,000 words behind where I need to be because last week, so I'm going to try to do over a thousand in the next few days. No promises
Wednesday, 25th of October 2023
Word Count: 12470
Written Today: 615
Songs: Runaway by AURORA
I have something every Wednesday evening, so there'll always be a dip in word count consistently each week. It was also them just starting to head out on the adventure; first I am slow at writing that, and is made worse because I feel it is a bit too early but I can't tell. The magic of editing will come in handy soon :)
Thursday, 26th of October 2023
Word Count: 14351
Written Today: 1881
Songs: "The Moon Will Sing" by The Crane Wives,
I had the day off and kind of wrote for two and a half hours straight this morning. Whoospie daisy. Look, I like writing character interactions as much as descriptions, and today was a day where I could write so many of them.
Friday, 27th of October 2023
Word Count: 15166
Written Today: 815
Songs: "Rises the Moon" by Liana Flores
It was a magic chapter and it was absolutely wonderful. I'm now on track for completion on December 1st :D
Saturday, 28th of October 2023
Word Count: 16231
Written Today: 1065
Songs: "Spider Web" by Melanie Martinez
The song didn't really fit the mood, but whatever. It was a bonding moment between Kase and Val. I'm planning to post a little Halloween oneshot. AO3 and Wattpad names are in pinned post :]
Sunday, 29th of October 2023
Word Count: 16977
Written Today: 746
Songs: "Ship in a Bottle" by fin
It was supposed to be a fight scene. It was. It became more bonding. Tomorrow at a not late hour I shall actually write a fight scene. I'm sick right now, so I haven't started the Halloween one-shot but it will be finished by Tuesday :]