Word Counts and Updates

[Luxuria]

Considering you've been putting your words into different baskets already, why not?

Okay! Cool. So, final count for today is: 2333.

 

[Catrin Lewis]

Whoops. Good catch.

All shrimp is frozen. Anything you buy that isn't frozen has been recently thawed. Pro Tip: buy the frozen bags of shrimp in the grocery store. The "fresh" ones at the seafood counter are the same bags that have been dumped for display.

Thanks for the tip! Not to mention the ones that are dumped for display tend to be priced higher.

 

[Catrin Lewis]

its mostly farmed as well, some of its wild caught but the majority isn't

I'm too poor to be particular. I just feel blessed to have a bag or two on hand.

 

[Catrin Lewis]

Thanks for the encouragement. (Un)Fortunately, most of my customers are employed by Uncle Sam. So, as long as the morons in DC are bickering, I'll have more time to write during the work day.

Morons on both sides, if you ask me. But I will not be political. Write on!

 

[big soft moose]

Words are words. Count 'em all.

I wrote around 3k words on a different piece last night ( that one’s at about 38k and change(

 

[defaux]

Dropped 650w on a flash piece I got an idea for. Plus editing to post it. Only a little disappointed I didn't get to further my main project.

 

[Tallyfire]

I wrote just over 2000 words today to get up to 8533 of 25000 words. That's 1/3rd of the way!

I felt some resistance the past days because I was venturing into a part of the story that wasn't well-planned, so I decided to just jump ahead and summarised a first-contact scene in one sentence. After that came the good part, and the words just flew out! Now I'm done telling one character's story and can move onto the second character, who enters about 30 years down the line. Fun fun fun.

 

[Madman Starryteller]

2590/15000

Wrote some hundred words above the daily.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Spent the last couple of days assembling the first two segments. First is now just a couple of words shy of 3k and second is 2900 words. I considered moving on, but reconsidered because what I had was so sparse that I was losing sense of who the characters are. Neither segment is finished and more words, and different words, will attach in later revisions, I'm pretty sure, but at least there's some notion of what this is about, in my head if not entirely on the page.

Whether or not I'm on schedule, I'm pleased with progress thus far and expect to have an incomplete completed version by the end of the month.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

11.607. Still short on words du jour, but now that I'm home from The World Outside, I can put on my I-ain't-going-anywhere-else-today clothes and settle down to an afternoon of writing.

 

[Speak With Animals]

Today's Wordcount: 558
Total: 6,363
Left to Goal: 18,637

Felt like a chore to write today. Ended up qith something that felt exposition-heavy and very poorly written. Decided I wasn't in the right place for it and closed shop for the day. Some days, brain doesn't brain. Busy doing other things, I guess. Shan't go into detail, but today was a rough one. So many of them are!

Still, always hopeful for tomorrow!

 

[twiget]

1,206 words today and my rough draft for this month's short story contest is complete. I'm going to let that percolate for a few days before I dig into it again and start putting lipstick on that pig.

5,703 of 30,000.

 

[Sandor]

Wrote 900 words on my novella. Might work on some short fiction if I'm up to it, might just chill out and watch movies or listen to ASMR stuff on youtube and read. Been having mental health issues yesterday and today, hopefully pulling out of it but I'm still drained.

 

[Louanne Learning]

It sure is great reading all about the great progress that everyone is making!! Carry on, and I look forward to hearing more!

The past few days we've been dealing with a family crisis - everyone is okay - but I haven't done any writing at all and I don't think I'll be able to pick up now in this awesome undertaking. But I watch everyone's word count with great interest!

 

[Homer Potvin]

I wrote at least 5k words in recipes, MOPs, emails, and training documents. Does that count?

 

[JT Woody]

didnt do any writing today.... but i did redo a page on my website.
We'll see what happens tomorrow

 

[Catrin Lewis]

Only 980 words on Talents today, bringing me up to 6,606. Too busy sleeping in (it's cold, these mornings!), doing yard work, and working my evening job.

Excuses, excuses.

The virtue of writing marathons like this is proving to yourself you can get words down, despite how busy life is. Tonight at work I picked up the schedule for the rest of the month, and it's about to get a lot busier.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

12,296.

 

[defaux]

Today was quite stressful at work. I managed 500w this evening, over 2 hours of struggling to find the mindset. It's the first scene of the next chapter, but I'm fairly sure it's mostly rubbish and I'll have to cut half of it. C'est la vie.

 

[Tallyfire]

I got 1800 words out today, getting up to 10346 of 25000. Past the 10K mark!

I've hopped over to first-person perspective, writing a classic Captain's Log. This feels more natural to me, although I've yet to find my way into the mind of a well-seasoned spaceship captain.