500 words a day.

I've set a goal of writing 500 words per day throughout November. This has worked well so far. Here's my three main thoughts so far:

1. 500 words is not that much compared to what some people can write in a single sitting, but I figured that I'm aiming more for consistency here, and that it'd be a bad idea to aim for a goal which I can't hit. I was able to write 500 words even on 'bad days', when exhausted or otherwise very busy, so that's quite nice. There's one day where I didn't write, but I had an exceptionally good reason for that. I've written about 730 words per day, and that feels quite nice.
2. I recommend trying this if you'd like to do more writing! Just make sure that you don't aim too high. 500 words was a good amount for me, and I'm a relatively slow writer, I think. You should probably aim for at most half of what you'd like to write on a "pretty good" (not exceptionally good) day.

3. I think the next time I might set aside two 'editing' days per week, on which I'll plan to work on story-related stuff for anywhere between one or two hours, instead of writing those 500 words. This is nice to take a quasi-break, and to get other important work out of the way.

   When I say 'story-related stuff' then I'm thinking of editing a story, filling in the description and infobox text, finding a good story title, finding/making a good cover image, etc.

Wish me luck for the rest of the month!

Comments

[Daitenshi]

Yeah as a philosophy major, writing is a massive part of what we do and it's easily the toughest part of my studies. I'm so much more comfortable reading and even taking notes based off what I've read/heard. So more power to you, I commend that goal and hopefully I'll be able to have that same consistency