GYWO: one month down, five bajillion to go.

[hindsightseeing]

I promised myself I'd try to post some little check-ins for this, so here we go.

A little late for the start of the month, but... eh, it's February. All bets are off.

So. getyourwordsout check-in #1:

Had a pretty awesome start, all told. A few little hiccups means a lot of time got taken up by Technical Issues (TM), but I still got what I wanted out of the month, creatively speaking, so it's all water under the bridge.

Total word count for the month was the highest it's been in well over a year (which is very good, because my GYWO pledge is the highest it's been in many years!), and I achieved my main goal for the month, which was to finish the first draft of Ye Endless WIP O'Doom Part 2 (Electric Boogaloo).

Tragically, this means that the entirety of February (at the very least) is going to be spent on editing said first draft... which, as we all know, is the worst, most exhausting, most soul-sucking part of any creative pursuit.

Writing longfic is my happy place. Editing longfic is the bane of my existence.

I would very, very much like this whole thing to be done, edited, cleaned up, and posted by the end of the month... but given the fact that February is the other bane of my existence, I'll accept this is highly optimistic.

If I can see an end to this darn thing by the time we hit March, I'll call it a win.

Comments

[pattrose]

Is GYWO a community challenge? I’ve got to go and look. Congrats on finishing what you did. Good luck with the edits.

[hindsightseeing]

Thank you!!!

Yep, getyourwordsout is a community challenge -- you make a year-long pledge, with monthly check-ins, to write either a certain number of words or a certain number of days over the course of the year. They have a bunch of different pledge levels, and all sorts of events over the year.

It's a great motivator if you like to write but need a sense of accountability to keep you going.