Er, HAHAHA.

[apocalypsos]

It's probably wrong that I'm just happy I broke halfway through my getyourwordsout pledge, right?

Heroine Addiction:

110843 / 110000

This Way To The Egress:

6051 / 100000

Untitled gay paranormal romance:

734 / 100000

Word count for November:

29603 / 300000

YTD getyourwordsout total:

162264 / 300000

The bad:

1. There's no way in hell I'm going to get my GYWO pledge for this year, but then again I already knew that.
2. I didn't win NaNo even if you just add up everything I wrote last month.
3. I probably won't be writing a lot of new stuff this month anyway, since I'll be editing.

The good:

1. I finished Heroine Addiction, didn't I? \o/
2. That means that I have two first drafts to edit, but I want to have them done before I start writing whatever I'm writing next.
3. ... because I'm pledging again with GYWO for next year. Er, heh. :D

That said, I'm definitely not trying for the Difficult level. I'm probably going to pledge for 200k this time around. I think my problem all boils down to the fact that when I'm working, all I want to do is go home and write, and when I'm not working I get horrendous writer's block. I spent two-thirds of this year unemployed. You do the math.

The plus side of having a full-time job again is that I'm being reminded of sitting at work bouncing in my seat wanting to race home and write. There's also the added advantage that being at work -- where I can't access the internet or be distracted by emails and don't have an MP3 player to listen -- means I've been writing stuff out in notebooks or, as I've been doing the past few days, taking a red pen to a first draft. It's the perfect environment for it.

I have an hour or so before I'm going to bed -- I want to hit the grocery store before work, which means getting up a bit earlier than I'm used to -- so the plan after I'm done writing this up is to see how much of the Heroine Addiction edits I can get in the file before bedtime. Time to pop on an Air Crash Investigation episode and buckle down, I guess. :)

Comments

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to make my GYWO goal this year, either. I'll probably sign up for it again next year, because I did get a lot of writing done this year (and sold quite a few of the pieces I finished, which was a nice bonus), though I didn't find the community of it as useful as just tracking my numbers. I probably will sign up for the highest goal again next year, but I doubt I'll make it then, either. No harm trying.

[modillian.livejournal.com]

I...may yet finish gywo? It's up in the air, keeping fingers crossed for 40K. The wordcount tracker and the challenge itself was totally worth it though, I wrote so much more than I expected this year.