auroracloud | Apr. 15th, 2020

Voluntary writing question of the day: Do you track words counts or do you have other ways of tracking/measuring your writing progress, besides checking in here? I didn't use to do anything like that, unless I was doing NaNoWriMo and wanted to beat a specific goal. Then for a couple of years at least, I did track my word counts and have yearly goals, inspired my some communities here on DW. But I abandoned it this year, because it didn't feel like a meaningful way for me to follow my progress, especially when I sometimes handwrite a lot (making it hard to get a precise count) and also write in two languages that have very different structures, making the word count comparisons less meaningful. But now that I'm only following my daily writing, I sometimes miss being able to mark in a list when I've had a particularly productive day or something. Ah well, I can probably live with it. But thinking about that made me curious about how you folks approach these things.

I do have some tiny rewards for myself for whenever I reach certain word count milestones with the new version of my novel, but I haven't yet reached any of them. Maybe I should just add more tiny rewards for other things as well! Like for an X number of fanfic words, for published fics, for fics in new fandoms, for getting so-and-so far in a notebook... But I'd have to think of how to come up with enough rewards since I don't have a lot of money these days.

On with the show!

Today's Writing

Though I had actual scheduled programme in the morning, I woke up early enough that I had some time for writing after breakfast. I did more free-writing that turned into more brainstorming for Ambush Project #2 (it needs a snappier pseudonym). And in the evening I finally got started on one of my bingo cards - I wrote 499 words on one of the squares on the April Bingo Card. Pure fluff, but that's what I need now. It still needs at least a few hundred words to be complete, but I was pleased with my progress anyway.

Tally

( Days 1-10 under the cut )

Day 11:

auroracloud,

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

deifire,

lferion,

luzula,

nafs,

sakana17,

sanguinity,

shadaras,