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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 2025. I'm participating in the Get Your Words Out Habit Challenge for the eighth 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. I'm going to 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 2019-2024, 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 2025:
January: 3
February: 3
March: 0
First Quarter: 6
April: 5
May: 2
June:
Second Quarter:
July:
August:
September:
Third Quarter:
October:
November:
December:
Fourth Quarter:
Words Written in 2025:
January: 0
February: 0
March: 0
First Quarter: 0
April: 0
May: 0
June:
Second Quarter:
July:
August:
September:
Third Quarter:
October:
November:
December:
Fourth Quarter:
Date I Met my Get Your Words Out Goal for the Year:
Date I Met my Word Count Goal for the Year:
Number of Days I Wrote or Worked on Writing in 2025 Total:
Number of Countable Words I Wrote in 2025 Total:
Other writing marathons that I'm planning on participating in in 2025:
April CampNaNoWriMo (goal 1,000 words) : NaNoWriMo is, or has ceased to exist. However, I've been so out of it so far this year that I only discovered that partway through April. I think my current plan for the future is to participate as if it still existed when I remember to. If I do that, I think I'll track using a combination of the "Language is a Virus" word tracker (or a similar word tracker) on this website -- modified specifically for whatever my current project is -- plus the GYWO and HabitBull app that I already also normally use during NaNoWriMos, in addition to the NaNoWriMo tracker I used on their website. But I'll see. Some writing marathons seem like they may be springing from the ashes, but the dust hasn't settled yet, and I'm also currently in no shape to be joining new communities.
July CampNaNoWriMo (goal 1,000 words) :
Get Your Words Out Mid-Year Marathon (I'll decide my goal then, if I remember to participate in it this year) :
3 Day Novel Labor Day Weekend (goal write a novel or novella over Labor Day Weekend) :
November NaNoWriMo (goal 300 words) :
Writing marathons that I'm not planning on participating in in 2025, 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.
