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fabled_librarianContent Warning: Brief and vague mention of chronic illnesses and some of the side effects of them.
This is the main post where I'll update my progress on my writing goals throughout 2024. I'm participating in the Get Your Words Out Habit Challenge for the seventh time in a row this year. I pledged a goal of writing or working on writing at least 120 days during the year, which is the same goal I've pledged each year since I first began doing the challenge in 2018. I've also set a personal annual word count goal of trying to write at least 3,000 countable words over the course of the year. That is drastically reduced from my word count goal for most, if not all, previous years. While I have met or exceed. I'm going o track my progress for both my GYWO and word count goals here, as well as my progress in any other writing marathons I do throughout the year. This is the format I used for tracking throughout 2019-2023, with a few additions and modifications for tracking additional information and making some information easier for me to find, and I like it much better than what I was trying to do for tracking my writing on this blog in 2018. This format is much easier for me to use and it makes it easier for me to find and compare the information I'm looking for. For the sake of my spoons, I generally update the habit and marathon goals monthly on this website, as opposed to daily. The word count goal I sometimes update daily here, especially during Camp/NaNoWriMos, but other times I do it monthly. Even so, my progress may not always be reflected accurately in real-time both because I tend to track in multiple different places -- often with a piecemeal approach, and also because I have several chronic illnesses that eat up my time, energy, concentration, and memory.
Days Written or Worked on Writing in 2024:
January: 3
February: 2
March: 5
First Quarter: 10
April: 20
May: 16
June: 5
Second Quarter: 41
July: 6
August: 3
September: 5
Third Quarter: 14
October: 19
November: 14
December: 14
Fourth Quarter: 47
Words Written in 2024: 17,778
January: 959
February: 0
March: 0
First Quarter: 959
April: 8,502
May: 0
June: 0
Second Quarter: 8,502
July: 4,358
August: 0
September: 0
Third Quarter: 4,358
October: 0
November: 3,959
December: 0
Fourth Quarter: 3,959
Date I Met my Get Your Words Out Goal for the Year: I didn't meet my GYWO this year.
Date I Met my Word Count Goal for the Year: April 10th
Number of Days I Wrote or Worked on Writing in 2024 Total: 112
Number of Countable Words I Wrote in 2024 Total: 17,778
Other writing marathons that I'm planning on participating in in 2024:
April CampNaNoWriMo (goal 1,000 words) {the goal that I actually set was 8,000 words}: 8,502 words
July CampNaNoWriMo (goal 1,000 words) {the goal I actually set was 3,000 words}: 4,358 words
Get Your Words Out Mid-Year Marathon (I'll decide my goal then, if I remember to participate in it this year): I didn't participate in it this year.
3 Day Novel Labor Day Weekend (goal write a novel or novella over Labor Day Weekend): I didn't participate in it this year.
November NaNoWriMo (goal 300 words) (the goal I actually set was 3,000 words): 3,959 words
Writing marathons that I'm not planning on participating in in 2024, but that I don't want to forget about:
The Artist's Way: (12 Week independent study writing program as laid out in the book of the same title by Julia Cameron. When I next attempt this, I'm planning on doing it during January, February, and March because that's the only three month stretch during the year that I don't generally participate in another writing marathon -- aside from GYWO, which can contain the other marathons within it). When I last attempted it, I realized that I should probably read the book all the way through once during the December before I attempt it, so that's something to bear in mind for the future.
The Writer's Games: I haven't actually tried these yet, and I'm not planning on participating in them this year, either, but I'm hoping to someday and I don't want to forget about them. So I'm mentioning them here as a reminder to myself.
