1/3/2016, Weekly Words I · 1:06am Jan 4th, 2016
Hey, there!
Welcome to my new initiative, Weekly Words! From now on, rather than just saying that words are being written, I'll now be showing screenshots of my spreadsheet. This spreadsheet is more for my use than anything else—a way to keep track of my progress on my New Year's Resolution of writing 1,500 words per day—but it also serves as a perfect method for informing my loyal readers of how much work I'm putting out. I'll be posting one of these every Sunday, but the weeks are counted on a Sunday–Saturday timeline. This week's is rather small due to the New Year, but I hope that it will at least get the idea across.
This week, the focus was on my belated Christmas Special, Gold-Tinted Lenses, which is the working title. It's a story about Rainbow Dash becoming worried that the present she's worked on for months will not be good enough for Rarity. Due to this anxiety, she decides to simply toss aside her work and buy something expensive instead, selling her prized flight goggles in the process. There is more to the story, but you will simply have to wait to find out.
Gold-Tinted Lenses was intended to simply be a short 6-8k story for Christmas, but it has surpassed 9,000 words at the time of this writing and is only halfway toward completion. Projected dates put its release somewhere just after next weekend.
It looks like that's all for this edition, folks! Hopefully, I'll have more for you on the 10th!
And how do we know this spreadsheet isn't just a spreadsheet, huh? :V
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Because if I were to falsify it, it damn sure wouldn't be something as embarrassingly small as 1600 words.
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You say "embarrassingly small" and I hear "embarrassingly believable."
The perfect ruse.
I'm on to you.
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Oh? You're back to writing too?
Maybe I should pick up where I left off then...
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Timaeus, what does the scooter say aboot his words per week!?
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I don't know! What does the scooter say?
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Hmm... Let's see... Admit the truth and be mad that my stupid phone's autocorrect is very poorly programmed, since I wrote that message while I was at work...
OR!
Act as though I had intended to type "scooter" all along, and edit the "about" in the message to "aboot", and pretend it was a well targeted pun at the fact that Timaeus is Canadian.
Hmm... Choices, choices.