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New month, more writing stats! :D

In April, I wrote a total of 45k words, and successfully wrote 11k words every week. I've surpassed 150k for the year now, which is both baffling and intimidating. My epic scheme to do a ridiculous goal for [community profile] getyourwordsout so it's funnier when I fail is suddenly frighteningly not-completely-out-of-the-range-of-real-possibility :( (In fact, had I written 1k more words in April, I would have caught up... I decided not to, LOL, because that would have made it real and I chickened out.)

Anyway, I wrote 24 days in April, matching March. I find it funny I'm not spending more days writing even as the wordcount keeps going up (for reference, I wrote 25 days in both Jan and Feb). I think I'm averaging writing like 5 days a week? Anyway, this certainly is validating my belief that daily writing goals just aren't for me, LOL.

So my next writing goal is 12k words every week in May.

That... is a very scary number. But sure. I'll... give it a try...

More writing stuff happened in April; I won Camp NaNoWriMo. My goal was 30k words, a combination of X words on 3 different projects---I was trying to hit a couple of milestones. Which I did do! One (1) project finished at 40k words, one project reached 10k words, and one project reached 50k words! All were original novels, so I wrote mostly ogfics in April.

In May, I have a couple of exchange deadlines, the big one obviously being [community profile] highadrenalineexchange. That's the one I really, really want to do, because it just seems like a fun challenge to attempt at least once. I wanna give it a try! If I fail, that's fine, but I wanna at least try. I think the only reason I'd not sign-up would be if I just couldn't find any requests I vibed with. Like, I don't want to force myself to write 10k words on a fic I don't enjoy, you know.

Also, prompting is now officially open on [community profile] smallfandomfest. You can check out the existing 6k (!!!) prompts here (a truly tiny percentile of which are mine).

I'm also very delighted that the [community profile] booknook friending meme is working! I mean, I track all comments on my comms for moderation purposes, so my inbox is currently dead, but it's delightful. Super excited to actually check out the friending meme's responses when I gather the spoons for more Interactions(TM).

Date: 2024-05-01 05:08 pm (UTC)
senmut: modern style black canary on right in front of modern style deathstroke (Default)
From: [personal profile] senmut
Congratulations!

Date: 2024-05-01 05:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vriddy
Congrats on multiple successes :D

Date: 2024-05-02 03:51 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
that's a great a lot of writing and good luck with the new goals

Date: 2024-05-03 03:55 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mistressofmuses
That is a wild number of words! Congratulations!

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