Around the start of the new year I added a new update bar for the front page to keep track of this year’s writing goal. It occurred to me the other day that I forgot to EXPLAIN what the darn thing means. It’s really very simple. In years past I have made complex writing goals and I found them stressful.

So instead I took a different approach. I looked at how many words a day it would take to accomplish a book being fully written and edited. I decided on 500 words, enough to fully write and edit a book that is around 75,000 words, and then to still have enough left over to work on my podcast stories.

I get my words two ways:

1. The old fashioned way, you know, actual writing.
2. 3 drafts of edits are equal to the number of words I wrote.

This basically means that the final draft of a 2,000 word story is worth 4,000 words toward my yearly goal (2K written, 2K edited). As I expected, I’m a bit behind on my percentage but I’m not stressing it. Summer is usually when I get a big bulk of my yearly writing done (I just have more time for it). Those days I tend to do far more than 500 words so it will make up for a small bit of slacking the rest of the year.

Tags: writing updates

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