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I am sorry that happened to you. I was wondering what was going on when I tried to log into my blog last week and it did the malware warning and wouldn’t let me through. I am glad you are up and running. This is a great blog for writers of all stages and it would be awful to see it messed up.

I have been slack on keeping track of my word count for a couple of weeks now. Going to have to take the badge off til I can prove to self I deserve it The good news is that I am building my portfolio on Triond!!!! I have 125 pieces and I feel like I am walking on air.

I hope that everything gets sorted out with the blog, and without too much fuss.

I’m back from traveling, and am happy to report that I managed to write 7 days out of the last two weeks. Often more than 500 words, sometimes a bit less. That might not sound impressive but to me it is since I’ve never been able to write anything at all while on vacation. And my story is slowly drawing to an end, only a few more days and I’ll have a first draft.

Another not so great week here, I only wrote for four days. I hit 500 words (a bit more) twice, only about 460 once, and a whopping 1,300 on the day before my writer’s group meeting because I had to have a story to read to them.
On the other hand I wasn’t home for two days, and I spent another two days doing taxes. You probably all know this but you can’t write after having done taxes, it only works the other way around. (Which is what I did today.)

I’ll keep the badge up because I fully intend to write my 500 words a day next week, and the one after, but I won’t have internet access. I already have my pda charged and ready, and a bit of pen and paper as well.

I did ok. Ended up going on an organizing/cleaning binge instead of writing yesterday and that threw me off but other than that, I seem to be keeping up fairly well.

Simply a lost week – head cold and laryngitis meant I had no energy and no brain, so no writing at all. Very annoyed, although it did mean I could finally catch up with Heroes, a series I have been wanting to watch since it started but never had the time for.

However, feeling much better this week so I am still optimistic that I will have chapter outlines done to start work on second draft in June.

I should add that I don’t have a badge posted anywhere at the moment. I will post the 1,000 word badge on my blog when I start the second draft.

I just started my blog last thursday… I hope I can handle this challenge. I have difficulty to capture an idea, in fact i have no idea for my next writing.

I’m going strong this last week. Monday was the lowest word-count day of the month, but I wrote 25K this weekend in a personal best/most addicted to what I’m writing. Thanks again!

I seem to be doing fairly well. Missed yesterday do to friend crisis and had to spend a few hours girl talkin’. But other than that, much success. ^_^

A miserable week redeemed by a decent weekend. I’ve been plotting and researching, thinking about orbital mechanics and what can be seen from the surface of a world then diving into the story arcs for the viewpoint characters.

So, this has been a good week, my first in too long. I am looking forward to starting the second draft soon.

Well, I just added up what I wrote over the last seven days and I’m blown away! I’ve written just over 13K, and that’s with three consecutive days were I wrote much less than 1K a day, but on the flip side I had several big-boom days as far as word counts are concerned.

I took up the Story a Day in May challenge, so on top of what I’m already trying to finish I’m also doing another thing each day. Right now my ’story’ a day is a short chapter in a middle grade fantasy, but I’m okay with that.

Thanks again for doing this! I look forward to checking in each week. I guess deadlines really help me.

I took April off because I’d just finished a story & work was overwhelming. Now that it’s May I need to get back on track with both editing & writing.

meh.

I’ve been surrounded by wedding details constantly. No writing done this week.
But it’s Monday and the start of another week. So here’s to looking forward.

My week was so productive in all areas except one — my writing! I got WIP writer’s block and didn’t know what to do until only a few days ago. Begin a new story, of course! Just a short distraction to refresh my mind.

Here, here! To looking forward!

Yay, I made my writing goal for the first time in months. Plus, this week is looking good since I signed up for StoryADay too!

This is such a great idea. At this point, I’m in cutting-words-mode instead of writing-words-mode. Do you have a challenge for that?

This week was awful for writing (and I’m really, really tired of having to write that). On a happy note, I finished the overall design for my web site, and kept up with my blogging goals. So something got done, even if it wasn’t the main goal.

Well, I did write my 500 words five times this week, so I count that as a success, especially since my little ’story’ now stands as 45,000 words. That just proves how much doing a little bit each day (or even five days a week) can accomplish. The writing is going better now that I sorted out the big problem I had with my story, and I’m feeling all smug today because I managed to get my writing done right in the morning even though I had a really busy day with much drama, and everything.

I’m so busy at the moment I almost forgot to check in …

Five days out of seven
Though most of the five spilled well over 500. But 500 still feels the right amount.
Will. Do. Better. This. Week.

I wrote 6 out of 7 days, but one day was fewer than 100 words. I’m happy that my consistency is getting better.

And my dad is home and doing so much better. Thanks for the well wishes!

Last week was bad. Too much stuff happening and when I sat down, I think I just stared at the blank page. Hopping to get back into my groove again.

Hardly wrote anything at all this week due to a really awesome first draft from a writer buddy I couldn’t put down. Time consuming to read and edit, but it was totally worth it.
Now I’m off to write again. Thanks for the reminder that I should be writing as well as reading.

I’m so happy. After the not so stellar week before last I got my act together again, and wrote every day! I did a total of 4172 words this week

Sorry for bragging but I’m so happy that the story is moving forward again.

Cid, I’m happy to hear that your father is better.

I was fortunate to make my numbers this week. I had a lot going on and the week ahead promises to be the same. However, the idea of scrambling at the end gives me a headache. So that won’t be happening again. Here’s my stats:

Weekly Goal: 3,500 words
Words Written: 3,500
Target Goal: 143,500 words
Status: 16% complete

I wish everyone much success in the week ahead!

My word count last week was 9,810. That is 4,998 more words than the week before! Not where I was but I am slowly getting back there. I am getting rid of a few distractions that aren’t anything more than hurdles in my life. That should help by leaps and bounds Have a great week everyone!

Hi everyone,

Last week, I wrote four days out of seven. I know it doesn’t seem all that great, but it’s definite progress. It felt good to write almost every day of the week. This week has kicked off to a lazy start, but I’m still hoping to make it five days out of seven.

Last week was the Computer Week from Hell.

Monday: fought with computers all day at work
Tuesday: a routine hard drive check of my home machine turns up bad sectors. Spent the night blocking these off and backing up. Thank goodness for Linux and its automatic hard drive integrity checks!
Wednesday: home router needs resetting. Repeatedly.
Thursday: writing! yay!
Friday:

Today is Tuesday and I got a blog post done, so things are looking up already….

This was a bad, bad week. Bad enough to contemplate both taking down the badge from my blog, and trashing the novel in progress. I only wrote for four days, and two of those I wrote less than 300 words, not the 500 I’m aiming for.

I had a major problem in my story, I had to answer the “why am I writing this, and why is all this stuff happening”-question. It all felt very, very random. the beginning had nothing to do with where the story is now. But then, yesterday in the shower (of course) I had this really great idea of how to tie everything together. I was positively excited and couldn’t wait to start writing.

By the time I finally got to sit down and write most of the excitement was gone again (one of these days I’ll learn to write first and do the rest later for real) but still, there’s hope the story might work after all. We’ll see.

Aw. Susanne, I hope it works out for your story. I’ve had that happen to me before. Wouldn’t it be nice if us writers had a pause button that would stop everything around us, put us in a quiet office with our favorite writing implements, and let us write down all the inspirational thoughts that come at inconvenient times?

I wrote a little this week, but again, was snaffoo’d by wedding plans needing to be taken care of. I don’t mind, but I am looking forward to when I’ll be able to carve out more time for writing.

I have been having a bad week as well. I have only done 4,812 for the week when I am suppose to do 1,000 a day.

I was doing really well until my dad had a stroke. I didn’t write for two days but other than that I wrote about 2K+ except for those days. Heck, I’m sitting in a Neuro ICU unit right now writing. I think it’s how I’m keeping myself busy. Not exactly crazy about what I’m writing but I’m moving through the story and I can fix it in revision. Here’s for taking what live gives you and powering through it! (Dad is doing well – I totally didn’t mean for that to sound so melodramatic! He’s a best-case-scenario so things are looking really good. Stuff in the hospital just takes forever+a day)

Things are getting better. I made 4 days out of 6 (I don’t count days where I get something done but don’t hit target). I hit my blogging target of 3 posts per week too, which made me very happy .

Look at us, complaining that we had a bad writing week when all of us wrote steadily, even Cid. (I hope your father gets well soon.)
I just talked to my husband saying, “And all I wrote were 1,500 words!” and then I thought how happy that would have made me this time last year when I didn’t write at all.

And just today I wrote 800 more words that weren’t too bad…

It was a progressive week. Organization and productivity were big issues and I made definitive strides in each. Here’s my stats for the week:

Weekly Goal: 3,500 words
Words Written: 3,681
Target Goal: 143,500 words
Status: 13% complete

Along with my daily writing goals I’m also establishing weekly initiatives as well. Overall, I think the changes will be very beneficial in the long run.

Good luck everyone!

I didn’t too badly the week before last – did a lot of interesting plot and setting work which I am pleased with – but then we went on holiday for the whole of last week. I had harboured vague hopes of writing while we were away, but vague hopes do not action make especially with small children.

We got back home on Monday this week (just… we rolled up to the front door around midnight) and have been struggling to catch up with work and sleep ever since. I have started on some more setting work today so my target until Sunday is about half the usual weekly total. Next week will be better.

[Cid] I hope your father gets well soon.

I did very little writing this week. It was slightly necessary and impossible.
But I did find out that I’m going to be published for the first time! Very excited. Don’t worry, I won’t let that distract me any more from writing.

Haha!

I know the feeling. What are you currently working on?

Thanks for the tips.
Arjuna

I can totally relate! We went on vacation a few weeks ago. I love my story. I wanted to work on it. But I also felt like I deserved time off, even if it was time off from something I loved.

Oh, that always happens on vacation. Which is why we rarely go for longer than a week. The crankiness of not being able to make art starts to cancel the happiness of time off out at that point.

I did my usual five days of writing last week. I hit 500 most of those days. One day I only wrote 179 but that was after a day of writing three blog posts in a row, and a new story of 2000 words. So that’s alright, then.

I can’t seem to get more than five days per week, so that’s what I’m settling with right now.: Five days of 500 words a day.

Thanks to the fact that I had a few really good days I was able to pull my word count up to 11,019. I am having a slow start this week but I have faith in myself to pull my word count up to maybe 12,000 by the time Saturday comes. Have a great week and good luck everyone.

P.S. Debbie you deserve a break every once and a while. Besides you have to learn all the ins and outs of that IPad so you cann lead us when we all get our own

I only did about 2.5 K (instead of 5,000), but considering I feel like I’ve been running around non-stop screaming “AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!” it felt pretty accomplished. Things are off to a better start this week already.

Weekly Goal: 3,500 words
Words Written: 3,621 words
Target Goal: 143,500 words
Status: 11% complete as of April 11th

This was a really weird week for me. I was besieged with migraines and I’m surprised I got anything done. I’ve swallowed more medicine than I care to recount. But in spite of this, my stats were good. I upgraded my challenge and moved to 500 words a day. I expect that to change by summer, which is good. It shows I’m making progress.

Good luck in the week ahead!

I was doing really badly with 250 but for some reason, upping to 1000 made a difference. I was actually able to do it. Maybe the additional pressure is what did it.

Meh. About the same as last week. This weekend had been hectic and I didn’t get done what I wanted to.

Great week. Exceeded my goal for the week. Feeling really good about where the story is going.

I am still moving upwards in my word count goals. I am at 10,938 for the past week. I am not where I want to be with my personal goals but I am maintain and doing my best to double my word count goals as far as what I have commited to. Still behind for the one million word goal for the year but good bad or whatever I am writing everyday without a break for at least an hour each day I hope everyone has a good week

My daily output has been steadily increasing. The expected production is 1,750 words per week, but I added an extra 1,493 words to that number. I’m opting to move to the 500 Words A Day Challenge. I’m sure I’ll be able to keep up.

I began this process on March 4th. I’ve written 13,014 words thus far. I’m looking forward to the extra challenge. Best wishes to everyone in the week to come!

I seem to be on a good week/bad week split at the moment… last week was a good week: I spent the time I wanted to spend on the work, and made good progress on figuring out some serious holes in the setting. I found out some interesting things about orbital mechanics, engaged in some gutter trigonometry (which I always enjoy), and was able to use the words “subtend” and “albedo” in appropriate and interesting ways.

It’s been a disruptive exercise, but in a good way: the initial signifier for the alienness of the world has gone from something trivial and silly to something profoundly different. Some of the ideas I had have evaporated under the hot glare of reason, but others have sprouted in their place.

This next week (assuming it is not a bad one) I am going to focus on character arcs and thinking about how the social effects of the world’s alienness can be shown. I will be taking a week off after that since we are on vacation, but I am hoping to have the holes at least signposted by the end of April and to start the second draft of book one in May (when I will actually be doing a thousand words a day).

Every week I tell myself that this will be the week I put in six days of 500 words, and every week I end up with five days of 500 words. I guess I should just relax and be content with that.

My feeling of being stuck with the story was partly due to the fact that all I ever saw of the story was the last paragraph I’ve written. Now I have downloaded Scrivener, and having the option of dividing my story into scenes, and seeing those scenes as index cards next to each other has made a major difference. I actually made a plan for the next three scenes, an amount of planning preciously unheard of.

So, all is good.

And I’m amazed at how much some people write, I’m in awe. Oh, and I’m not doing Script Frenzy this year despite being sorely tempted. Slow and steady is my new motto.

For some reason I’m stuck in “3 days a week land,” I think partially because I was so close to the end of my story. Now I’m done with the first draft & it’s time to visit editing land. Not sure what to write during the editing process. Might take the whole week off because I have to go camping Friday-Sunday and know I won’t get enough writing in anyways. Maybe I should stick it out, but I’m not sure.

Yay! I did it! I’m so proud of myself. This has been a great motivator to help me get started on a daily writing routine. Even when I was exhausted, I thought, “Surely I can squeak out 250 words.”

I started on the 30 so I’m fairly pleased to have kept to the 500 a day with the exception of Easter Sunday (family, Easter, things like that!)

250 left to do today, though…

I did pretty average this week. Made my goal on only a few days but most days I almost wrote enough to get a thousand words.

I’m kind of afraid I’ll find out that I’m a binge writer. I seem to write a lot or a little depending on the flow of the story and of my life.

Here’s hoping for a more regular writing schedule this week.

I make the average word count easily enough, but as always it’s the consistency issue I have. I wrote about 9K in the last seven days. After the terrible month March was, things are turning out better.

Feast or famine here. 1000 words one day, zero the next-hmmm, so the word count is always going up.

I came in at a respectable 9,352 this week. I was on a strong track until about Thursday and then I slacked off a bit. Still I am not going to complain. Hope everyone had as good of a week as I had and i hope everyone has an outstanding week in their future!

Only wrote 3 days this week & thus failed. Had an event Saturday…then got all depressed when my basketball team lost in the tournament.

I wrote on an average of 250 words a day. Where I skipped a day, I wrote 1000 or so the next day. Just trying to find that write _everyday_, at least 250 words, habit. I know I don’t have to write that way, it’s just that I _want_ to.

Not the best week – again. There were only three days when I wrote my 500+ words. On one day I managed to squeeze in about 250 words. The thing for me to remember is that if I’m attending any kind of social event I have to get my writing done before that. It won’t happen afterwards.
It’s always so much better when I manage to write in the mornings.

I’m not totally down, though, because on two of the days that I didn’t meet my quota I did write things for my blog. I don’t count those but still – it’s writing.

I had an excellent week. I’ve completed the monthly goal and surpassed my benchmark. The new tools and resources I’ve implemented are paying off. I’m finding my stride and discovering new avenues along the way. At present, I’ve completed 11% of the goal and expect that I’ll probably alter the number and aim for something higher if this continues.

Congratulations K.D.! Kudos to everyone for hanging in there. Best of luck in the week to come!

An utterly woeful week as far as writing went.

I started the week with my completed gazetteer, knowing that I was supposed to be working on figuring out how to make the setting and plot arcs more consistent (eg physically possible), but I think I may have tidied things up too much and had no ragged edge to work from. I just couldn’t get a mental grip on what I was supposed to be doing, and had the added problem of a series of issues at work that consumed my energy for lunchtime writing.

I will figure things out this week, though – I did at least generate some questions that need to be answered so I can work on those. World building is hard, though.

Bad week word count wise. I took down the graphic last week and just put it back up today. I knew I would not get my words in as I was more concerned with the warm weather. It wasn’t all bad. I had a lot of ideas hit me and I got a lot of thinking done. It was not a waste for me. I feel badly I didn’t get my words in but I don’t feel like a failure. I know those words are important but the ideas are important too…and also – spending quality time with my little girl when she needs it (and when Mommy needs it too) is even more important.

I didn’t make the word count by any stretch of the adjectives imagination. But I still feel proud of myself because I got a good chunk done that I knew was going to be hard to write.

Now it’s off to next week with bright eyes and high hopes. Thanks again, Debbie, for helping us keep our word count goals.

Ack. I fail at using HTML tags. Sorry about the strike-outs. Only “adjectives” was supposed to be struck out.

I’ve just put up a 500 a day badge – it’s a great idea and that little nudge will be very useful.

I did very very very poorly this week. Wrote on Monday & Wednesday (how I normally start my weeks, generally I skip Tuesday for Lost). I worked late Tuesday & Thursday, then also worked a short pleasant day on Saturday. I had relatives come in Friday night. From there everything just fell apart. I felt obligated to be social with the other women, but preferred watching the NCAA tournament with the men. So I had to do both.

I hope to do better this week but the boyfriend is talking about visiting. Usually that throws me off. And I’m SOOO close to the end of this story. Plus my team is still in the tournament. Luckily not working late this week (but am working Saturday).

So my totall was probably between 500-600 words for the week. Dismal. Shame.

I strive for 1K words a day. I have been averaging 1500 to 2000 words every day. They are not all profound, some are pretty mundane, but I keep getting my “bones” thrown down and then sometimes rearranged so that they can become real stories. The challenge and my challenge badge hold me to my commitment!

I feel like a workhorse but cherish the feeling. The words are finally being set free.

Ciao!

I’m on editing mode, so who knows how much I’ve written. Lots I’m guessing. Cut tons too.

I’ve left an award for you on my blog.

Again, I exceeded the weekly average, but fell short on the write-daily goal. *sigh* Oh well! Got some really good stuff hammered out so I can’t complain too much, right?

That was much better – recommitting last week appears to have helped.

I finished the mind map of book three so I now have something approaching a gazetteer of my world. The next task is to start in on figuring out the plot holes and so on, although I am not really clear where to start on that.

At some point I will have to start cutting themes too – I have a bad habit of inventing new thematic ideas and piling them into the current book. I’ve killed one novel that way already; this one will not die like that!

Ah, my word count wasn’t so great… actually went down quite a bit. I hit a fork in my book… and went the wrong way, and will be spending this week fixing my mistakes! But the good news is, I’ve learned that I can get my daily word count of 1000 done because I did it the last few weeks, and having kids running circles around me, and commitments every day don’t stop me from getting my writing done, as long as I plan well for the day!

Rough week for me. Two days under 1000. It was a week of birthdays in my family – including mine so I got sidetracked a few days. I will do better this week. I did take the 1000 words a day challenge down for a few days and just put it back up Saturday. No more birthdays for a while! YEAH!

Not the best of writing weeks but still I managed to meet my “500 words a day”-goal for four days. Well, there is nothing to do but do better this week.

So now I’m off to write another 100 words because this morning I was interrupted after having written only 396 words. 104 more to go.

My word count was a little lower last week than the week before but I have still hung tough by coming in at 8779 by Saturday (I start my new week on Sunday). I have earned my 1,000 word badge back and will be putting it back on my profile tonight It is looking like this week will be a good one as well if yesterday and today is any clue of that

I moved from Wordpress to self-hosting and spent the week getting organized and learning the nuances of having to do everything for myself that was once automated. But I wouldn’t sacrifice the autonomy for anything. I had to battle a bad bout of sickness as well, but still managed to exceed the weekly mark (1,750) by 484 words. I can only attribute that to perseverance. I was quite certain I’d fall short. This week I’m tackling a few new projects and would like to try my hand at a new feature I’ve found online. I’ll detail it on the site.