Aurora's Sundry Notes

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, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme


Day 12: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 13: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 14: auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 15: auroracloud, china_shop

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Today I played around with my Dreamwidth user pics for a while, including changing my default icon, and for the first time in... over 1.5 years, I think... my default icon here doesn't look like Nyssa of Traken, so I feel very disoriented when I look at my Dreamwidth page and keep looking for "me". But I'd wanted a change for a while, we'll see if I stick with this one. (On LJ I don't have most of these icons, so it has no effect there.)

Today's Writing

Mentioning my Ambush Project in yesterday's post had its uses, as I ended up working on it today! Some handwritten pages, no idea of the word count or such. But it was nice to work on it for some time again.

In the evening I typed up the pages from one of the times recently when I worked on my novel with longhand writing rather than at the computer. It ended up being over 500 words, which is considerably more than I've recently managed at the computer, so maybe I need to do this handwriting thing more often with the novel as well. I also edited some while I was writing, and added some new things. There are still bits that have got a little comment attached to them that say "come up with something for this part," "finally come up with a surname for these people" etc. But I'm pretty pleased overall with what I did.


Tally

( Days 1-7 under the cut )

Day 8: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman

Day 9: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman

Day 10: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, caprices, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, yasaman

Day 11: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman,

Day 12: auroracloud, china_shop,

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It's nearly Easter... Do you folks have time off during Easter? Since I currently make my own schedules, I don't have any particular days off, but I really feel I need more than just the regular two-day weekend I give myself, so I'm probably taking a regular Easter break from Friday to Monday, or at least Friday to Sunday. I've been really tense and tired this week, and I'd better take some time to relax and let go. I hope it also leads to more writing, but if it doesn't, I'll try not to stress myself about it.

Today's Writing

I managed to do my writing in the morning, and ended up with a few handwritten pages of a thing I wasn't planning for, but which started to grow in my mind from a shorter bit I wrote a couple of days ago. Well, it's words, I'm taking it!



Tally

( Days 1-7under the cut )

Day 8: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman


Day 9: auroracloud, china_shop

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Ah, I got proper sleep last night, which was nice. And the weather was nice, so I had a good long walk of about 1.5 hours. Otherwise I've spent way too much time looking at embroidery patterns online, so I think I need to just order some more threads already. On the upside, all that actually ended up indirectly helping my writing, which is not always the case with procrastination.


Today's Writing

I took advantage of weekend to start my writing early today, which was so much nicer than doing it when I'm half asleep. I should really try to schedule at least a bit of writing into my mornings during the week as well, it's so much better for me writing-wise. Anyway, I wrote longhand this time around, starting with a bit of timed free-writing, and then went on to work on a scene in my novel. It was really nice.

Tally

Day 1: alexcat, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 2: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, deifire, elliet, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 3: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman

Day 4: auroracloud, china_shop