New year? New month? New daily writing post. I’m scribbling this up the day after the first because everyone takes the day off so why shouldn’t I?
I was up till 4am playing board games the night before, being very responsible.
Alright lets get this tracker started.
RULES REMINDER:
- 500-1000 words a day.
- Weekends don’t count UNLESS I’m IN IT
- Missed days do NOT need to be ‘made up’
- But try not to miss more than 3-5 per month.
JANUARY 2025 PROGRESS:
- JAN 01: 2024 — A Retrospective Blog Post — 2,710
- JAN 02: TAKE OUT — 1,059
- JAN 03: TAKE OUT — 897
- JAN 04: TAKE OUT — 915
- JAN 05: TAKE OUT — 786
- JAN 06: TAKE OUT — 712
- JAN 07: TAKE OUT — 517
- JAN 08: TAKE OUT — 1,599
- JAN 09: TAKE OUT — 229
- JAN 10: TAKE OUT — 564
- JAN 11: TAKE OUT — 620
- JAN 12:
- JAN 13: TAKE OUT — 403
>>>>>>>> PARHELIA — 119 - JAN 14: TAKE OUT — 674
- JAN 15: TAKE OUT — 745
- JAN 16: TAKE OUT — 2,533 END.
- JAN 17:
- JAN 18:
- JAN 19: PARHELIA — 1,072
- JAN 20: PARHELIA — 320 END.
- JAN 21: ~EDITING, NO WC~
- JAN 22: ~EDITING, NO WC~
- JAN 23: ~EDITING, NO WC~
- JAN 24: ~EDITING, NO WC~
- JAN 25: THE COMIC PROCESS: AUGUSTINE — 2,921
- JAN 26:
- JAN 27: TAKE OUT — 1,578
- JAN 28: TAKE OUT — 423
- JAN 29: TAKE OUT — 753
- JAN 30: TAKE OUT — 380
- JAN 31: TAKE OUT — 1,342
TOTAL WC THIS MONTH: 23,551
JANUARY 16
I finished a DRAFT today!! Wow!!! This is so fun and exciting! Since starting this adventure (with NaNo) I’ve finished 2 drafts and I’m starting to feel really great about it.
I always get so weird & sentimental about finishing a draft. Especially ones I have so much fun writing. I think I struggle a bit with letting go of something that didn’t take me as long as I thought it might, to finish.
And the trouble with that is that I tend to put off ACTUALLY finishing it until I completely forget about it and it collects dust in my hard drive somewhere.
BUT NOT THIS TIME.
So I’m taking a short break from it (1 week….or less idk we’ll see how long the short fiction draft takes) so that I can finish up a short fiction writing challenge I started up with friends earlier this month. And then spending the last week of January finishing it up before…
POSTING IT HERE HAHAH.
Yeah, no I mean it. I’ll be posting it in bits and pieces up here for folks to read. The plan is to be able to doodle things along with it before I post it on a more professional sphere I guess. We’ll see. Its a project I’m doing for fun so I’m trying to Let Go a little bit more.
Look forward to that~
JANUARY 19
So I’ve gotten into a new Writing Challenge with some friends from one server: PARHELIA is part of that. I’ve decided to go with some Flash Fiction/Vignette of an OC of mine based on a photo I gave to our group as inspo to draw from~ It’ll be exciting to see how everyone interprets my prompt~
BUT ALSO–
I’ve started doing some quick 10 minute writing sprints with another group of writer colleagues in our agency’s discord! It’s been a really fun way to toss out the bad brain demons and just get straight to work on a wordcount. I used to do this a lot way back when and finished a lot of drafts that way just plundering through & not stressing about whether or not something works.
We can always fix it in post~
JANUARY 25
I ran into my first issue with this word count sprint and its: Fuck What Do I Do About Editing?
Because the goal here is to Finish More Stories and to use this writing challenge to encourage the finishing of said stories. I needed a little leeway when it comes to deciding I actually want to Edit and put the work into doing that too. Right now I’m editing TAKE OUT so I’m trying to chip away at 2-3 chapters per week. Thing is, once I’ve decided I’m editing for the day, its hard to switch my brain to another story and actively write that one.
Also, like. I finished not ONE but TWO works this month so I’m giving myself a bit more flexibility this week and next~!
Not to mention the weather’s been absolute whiplash so I’m battling more headaches than I usually do.
TL;DR I’m still WRITING just not full-steam-ahead drafts!
JANUARY 30
So earlier this month I talked about potentially posting TAKE OUT up here and sure enough I DID. So far the first two episodes are up while I work on editing the third! It’s been interesting running through edits this fast but I’m glad I decided to just go for it instead of spending a bunch of time overthinking it.
(which is ironic bc this particular main character has a habit of Overthinking hehehe)
JANUARY 31
AND THAT’S A WRAP! At least for the first month of the year! I’ve started adding my BIG TOTAL at the end of my big progress tracker at the top and hitting 23,000 WORDS feels like a huge win in my books (considering this ISN’T NANO and I’ve spent a good chunk of the month in editing limbo) It’s incredible how much I’ve gotten done.
Yeah it was spread across various projects. There are a couple things I also didn’t even count up in there because it felt extra.
But it’s incredible to see how a small goal snowballs into making MORE of something even EASIER.
We’ll have to see if I can keep this up.
And…. if there isn’t some way for me to translate a daily goal like this into some more personal drawing/sketching. Maybe I need a daily sketch goal this year…. hmm…
Much to think about! ONWARD!