First day goal has been met…now for the other thirty
September 9, 2009
All right! I made my writing goal for the first day and things are looking good.
Now I just need to repeat this for the next 30 days for the next three months…. Good, lord, what have I gotten myself into?
Seriously though, I’m looking forward to the end result of this orgy of productivity. Even if it may end up killing me, I’ll have a lot more to re-write, edit and get out there.
It’s both exciting and scary.
To keep track of everything, I’m using the NanoWriMo Report Card spreadsheet to track my progress and other stats. It’s a definitive must if you’re going to be pumping out words on a schedule like I’ve given myself. It’ll tell you nifty info how much you can produce in a given time period and just how much as a percentage you have left of your novel. You can find it here, and if you want to undertake NanoWriMo or decide to do your own personal NanoWriMo, then I recommend you get it.
As of now, the second day isn’t off to as good a start since I’m off to a career fair in the morning in order to secure some extra income to keep the lights on and the Internet flowing. But just like yesterday, I know I can make it up later in the day.
September 9, 2009 at 7:29 am
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September 9, 2009 at 7:49 am
Simon Haynes’ yWriter program has a nice little project tracking section that allows you to not only plan out scenes, chapters, characters, items and a number of other things, but it also has a progress tracker that can be used to create a chart of your progress. I find it quite useful.
http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html
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September 9, 2009 at 7:59 am
Cool, thanks for the recommendation. I use Scrivener myself for all my writing, though YWriter looks nice. Too bad it’s only Windows.
December 16, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Glad you liked the spreadsheet
December 20, 2010 at 6:51 pm
It rocked. Too bad I didn’t though…