Stats
Week 16 Average Daily Wordcount: 2,150
Week 16 Total Wordcount: 15,050
December Total Wordcount: 40,762
Year Total Wordcount: 315,744
Words to go:
December: 42,572
Year: 684,256
I have no excuses.
Not one.
You can see those stats. Not only did I not catch up from my poor showing last week, but I didn’t even reach my regular weekly quota. I’m now behind by over 15k for the month of December, which feels insurmountable with the holidays coming.
I have no idea what happened here. I am in full on panic mode about it though, because I can’t keep going this way if I want to succeed at Milwordy. And yet, I can’t seem to force myself back into a respectable writing schedule.
I feel…tired. And a little out of ideas, which is unusual for me to be honest. Usually I have more ideas than I can force myself to sit down and write. Now I feel like a well that’s dried up.
I don’t know if this is just a slump. I don’t know if it’s caused by a lack of interest in my current projects. I don’t know if this is the natural result of trying such a demanding challenge. Is burnout inevitable? I just don’t know. Which means that I don’t know how to fix it.
I wrote a post earlier in my blog about writer’s block. I came to the conclusion in that post that you have to figure out why you are having trouble writing in order to fix the problem. But how does that help if you can’t figure out why you’re having trouble in the first place?
Ah!
Anyway, this week I learned that getting behind is bad for morale which inevitably leads to getting further behind. So, I guess the moral of this story is, always try to stay ahead.
PS: I’m posting this a little late because of Christmas. Those of you that follow me on Twitter will know that this post is not exactly accurate to where I am now in the challenge. I wrote it before I had a giant writing day on the day before Christmas Eve, so we’ll talk about that for my Week 17 post, which I’m pretty excited for. Until then, just know that writing is going much better for me now and I’m eager to head into the New Year.
Rambling Robin 