About Them Numbers
Feb. 26th, 2015 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scribblemynameSo I've been clipping along at about 25K a month, mostly on short stuff and fanfic, though there is behind the scenes progress on the original stuff.
My goal for the year is about 500K and that will take me to about 300K.
Honestly, I'm pleased that I'm that high without the success and time I want to put toward all of this (we won't discuss the mitigating factors just now), but I really want to write a lot more and want to get some headway on my original fiction projects and quit having so much trouble when I'm trying to write anything by times and heading off for easy flash fic instead. I want to write my big pieces.
That said, I am trying to learn techniques from the pieces I'm working on now. I've raised my general word count by a few thousand words, so hopefully after this, I can apply those lessons to my two big pieces, then maybe get on to the whopping backload of WIP original stories I keep itching to run off and finish.
:le sigh:
Hope you're doing well with your writing goals!
My goal for the year is about 500K and that will take me to about 300K.
Honestly, I'm pleased that I'm that high without the success and time I want to put toward all of this (we won't discuss the mitigating factors just now), but I really want to write a lot more and want to get some headway on my original fiction projects and quit having so much trouble when I'm trying to write anything by times and heading off for easy flash fic instead. I want to write my big pieces.
That said, I am trying to learn techniques from the pieces I'm working on now. I've raised my general word count by a few thousand words, so hopefully after this, I can apply those lessons to my two big pieces, then maybe get on to the whopping backload of WIP original stories I keep itching to run off and finish.
:le sigh:
Hope you're doing well with your writing goals!
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Date: 2015-02-26 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-26 06:11 pm (UTC)I have found that word count is a lousy indicator for me on how finished works will come along, solely because my brain is constantly moving toward resolution. Sustaining momentum longer than 20K has not occurred for me and longer than 10K only once.
That's why I'm focusing on learning how to do this.
I make huge word counts only if I write more short fics. So far, I haven't been able to do it by writing a longer fic. :frowns:
Long way to say, thanks for the encouragement. I'll take it!