Writing Goal Progress Tracking 2019 Get Your Words Out Habit Goal and Personal Word Count Goal

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8867 / 88100 words. 10% done!

This is the main post where I'll update my writing goals progress throughout the year. My progress may not always be reflected accurately in real-time because I tend to track in multiple different places, often with a piecemeal approach. I decided on a word count goal of at least 88,100 words to write during the year. I'm also participating in the Get Your Words Out Habit Challenge for the second time this year. I pledged a goal of at least 120 days during the year, which is the same goal I pledged last year. I'll probably be more vigilant about tracking my word count on here, since I need to do check-ins every month for the Habit challenge, and since I also track the Habit Goal with a habit tracking app (that's unrelated to GYWO). But I'm going to try to do both here, as well as possibly tracking my writing marathon progress -- or at least the results of the writing marathons I do. I think that may be easier than the quarterly progress reports I tried to do, though I'll probably try to do them, too. For the sake of my spoons, I'll try to wait to update the habit and marathon goals monthly, as opposed to daily. 

Days Written or Working on Writing in 2019:

January: 4

February: 3

March: 9

First Quarter: 16

April: 1

May: 8

June: 12

Second Quarter: 21

July: 12

August: 15

September: 6

Third Quarter: 33

October: 13

November: 24

December: 13

Fourth Quarter: 50

Number of Days I Wrote or Worked on Writing in 2019 Total: 120

Writing Marathons Other Than Get Your Words Out:

The Artist's Way (12 Week program -- I'll be doing during January, February, and March because that is the only three month stretch that I won't be attempting to participate in another writing marathon this year -- aside from GYWO, which can contain the other marathons within it): I stopped doing this shortly after I started because I kept falling further behind. I really think I need to read through it one year in December, and then follow it in January, February, and March of the following year. I also want to finish The Right to Write first, which seems to have a lot of overlap with the course. I probably won't do The Artist's Way next year, either, because I have other plans and I don't want to overwhelm myself (which I often do). But i hope to do it someday.

April CampNaNoWriMo (goal 10,000 words): 343 words

July CampNaNoWriMo (goal 10,000 words): 2,723 words

3 Day Novel Labor Day Weekend (goal write a novel or novella): I'm not participating in this contest this year.

November NaNoWriMo (goal 50,000 words I changed this goal to 5,000 words to be more realistic and understanding of myself): 2,055 words (I also had pneumonia for most of the month)

The Writer's Games (I haven't actually tried these yet and may not this year, but I'd like to): I'm not participating in these this year, and probably not next year, either, but I'm hoping to some day.