Accountability? Progress? Summary? I honestly just don’t know what to call these posts. So for the moment, I’m going to stick with accountability because that was what I called the last few I wrote.
In March, about mid-month—or actually, at exactly mid-month on March 15th—I decided to start writing every day again.
Usually, I avoid setting a word count goal for that, but this time, I knew I wanted to see real progress, and I wanted it to add up to something. So, I set a goal for > 200 words a day. No more of this “one word counts” or “negative words still mean I did something that day.” This was intended to be a goal that would get me some real forward progress on my stories and get me back into some semblance of a writing routine.
I’m not good with routines. Past posts on this site are littered with the proof of that, so feel free to go looking if you want. :)
Maybe because I was also posting about this goal on a Discord server of fellow writers (it’s a small server of writers from my state), I found extra motivation to keep going even when I might have normally said forget it because it was 2 am and I still hadn’t written 200 words, but I did keep going.
In March, I wrote 9,259 words, and more than doubled my February word count.
506 of those words were from March 1–14, and 8,753 of those words came during March 15–31.
My year started off weird because my daughter was home a lot longer than planned, and I really needed this push to get started writing again. :D I’m glad I did it.
I decided not to change anything for April, because it’s working, and I don’t want to blow it up just when it’s picking up steam. ;D
The only small, teensy little thing I’m hoping to do different in April is start earlier in the day. But it’s not a requirement, and it’s not a real goal. Just a hope.