GYWO 2018: WHYYYY

[cookiegirl]

It was all going so well when I last posted about GYWO back in April! \o/ \o/ \o/
And since then....



So let's just round up for the sake of completion, and then I can make a fresh start, yes? Very good.

 

28624 / 75000 words. 38% done!


Monthly goal for April: 6164
Actual word count: 500
Days with writing: 1

Monthly goal for May: 6370
Actual word count: 0
Days with writing: 0

Monthly goal for June: 6164
Actual word count: 0
Days with writing: 0

Monthly goal for July: 6370
Actual word count: 1500
Days with writing: 1

Monthly goal for August: 6370
Actual word count: 0
Days with writing: 0

Monthly goal for September: 6164
Actual word count: 684
Days with writing: 1

27,472 words behind target

OH BUT I CAN TOTALLY MAKE THAT UP, RIGHT?



I'll try anyway. Why not?

Things worked on: iZombie Liv/Blaine fic for screenexchange  drabbles round; White Collar Peter/Neal fic for slashorific ; White Collar Peter & Neal fic for fandomgiftbox 

I haven't actually got around to posting these on my journal yet, they are posted on my shiny new AO3 account (or the fandomgiftbox comments). So, a question. Those of you with AO3 accounts, do you also post the fic fully on your journal, or do you just link to it? Opinions please and thank you!

Poll #20522 A03/Journals

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

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Do you post the whole fic on your journal or just a link to Ao3?

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just a link
4 (36.4%)

post the whole fic
7 (63.6%)

Are you more likely to comment on a journal fic?

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I'll comment whether it's on Ao3 or LJ/DW
7 (63.6%)

More likely/prefer commenting on Ao3
2 (18.2%)

More likely/prefer commenting on journal
2 (18.2%)

I don't comment either way!
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Yes, you can still do it! It's only 306 words a day! Even if you don't make it you can get close, so don't quit! *cheers you on*

[cookiegirl]

Thank you!! <3 <3 Though I have 46,376 words in total left to write this year so I think that's more like about 550 words a day? D: Still not impossible, but not.... likely! :D

[badly_knitted]

Even if you just manage 100 words a day, that's still progress. You never know what you can do unless you try.

Come on over to the drabble communities or something. Or maybe try one of the prompts at torchwood_fest. Prompt list should be going up on the 6th

[cookiegirl]

Very true! And I've managed to complete my pledge before, so there's no reason I couldn't do it again, really!

Yeah I need to get back into the comment fic comms. Ooh thank you I will remember to check that out too. How's your writing going?

[badly_knitted]

You'd be welcome at my fic and drabble communities too, drabble_zone and ficlet_zone. They're very low pressure, the first has weekly prompts for 100 or 200 word drabbles, the second has monthly prompts for any length of fic, and no deadlines so all prompts remain open to be dipped into whenever you please.

My writing's going fine, I'm on schedule to to reach 500k again this year, but I'm pushing myself hard with a minimum 1100 words per day because I want to try to beat last year's total. I'm a glutton for punishment, lol!

[jerusha]

I'm terrible about commenting, to be honest, but I'm more likely to comment on LJ or DW. It's too easy to hit the kudos button on AO3. (That said, as someone who mostly posts just to AO3, I love to receive comments, but I'm just as happy with kudos.)

[cookiegirl]

It *is* too easy to hit the kudos, right? I can't decide whether I like the whole kudos thing as a concept or not!

I think you're good at commenting! <3

[sheenianni]

I'm even more behind than you, I think...
I stopped doing the daily wordcount sometime around April (found it too stressful) and settled for tracking monthly progress. I also stopped tracking the wordcount on one of my "epics" - it was making me nervous to see words "disappear" whenever I edited it. So I'm just writing and I'll add the total wordcount when I finish it (that's the idea anyway...)

I love the GYWO challenges, essays and the word wars, but the actual tracking words - no sir, not for me.

[cookiegirl]

Yeah, the best part of GYWO is definitely the stuff on the community :) I gave up with the tracking too for months, but mostly because I wasn't writing anything to track! Before I did this post I had to enter like a hundred zeros in the spreadsheet to get it to update itself!! I'm glad you're writing, though, and that you have an epic :D

[spikedluv]

I used to post on both but it's much easier to just make an announcement on LJ/DW. Especially for long damn stories. Plus it keeps all the comments in one place. Except for the people who actually back out of the story and comment on the announcement in a community, which always makes me go o_O why would you take that extra step instead of just commenting on ao3???

[cookiegirl]

Yeah, I think for the long stories especially I will just do a link. Maybe I will post in both places for the ficlets, but sorting out the formatting for 15k words is just not fun.

Haha, I know that's so weird and annoying, and yet it does often happen!