october sure was a month that existed, huh

[quillpunk]

First up, I've got 2 more fics!

• e'er the sound (5092 words): a Bleach fic (Kisuke/Grimmjow)
• block patterns (1635 words): a SGA fic (Ronon/Rodney)

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Secondly; so once upon a time I said my writing goal for October was to write 5k words every week.

And this goal has been met!!!

In total, I wrote 22k words in October XD I am obviously extremely pleased, especially because I think I proved to myself that 5k words a week aren't out of my wheelhouse. It didn't feel like a struggle—I mean 2 Sundays in a row I had to write over 2k words but actually I can do that just fine, and have always been able to. 2k words in a day is perfectly okay every once in a while!

(I wrote like 300 words in ten minutes last Sunday, but I made it! Like 1 second before midnight! Woohoo!)

Making this goal means that in November, my goal is 6k words every week. I feel like that should be cool? According to my old spreadsheet, I ended up at 26k words/month a lot, so. Well, I'm not flexing muscles I've never used before, at least.

I have tossed my project up on the NaNoWriMo site (I'm quillpunk there too!) and associated it with the event, but I don't intend to go for the full 50k, I'm aiming for my ca 25k. It feels a bit weird to say this, but I don't want to get swept up in NaNo's hype and accidentally write too many words, LOL, because that jeopardizes my evil scheme (as laid out in that other post). I would like to kind of get buoyed by the hype though, if that's possible.

I'm really excited for November pumps fist

Also! I've been fiddling with making a new writing log spreadsheet the last few days, and I am so incredibly pleased with the result! You can check it out here (though everything has to be done manually, I don't know any spreadsheet magic, LOL).

Comments

[mistressofmuses]

Congratulations on the words!

I hope you get exactly the right amount of hype and the right kind of boost from NaNo!

[quillpunk]

thank you! i hope so too XD