Stats
Average Daily Wordcount (Week 39 Only): 5,330
Week 39 Total Wordcount: 37,308
Average Daily Wordcount (May): 2,689
May Total Wordcount: 83,360
Year Total Wordcount: 779,244
Words to go:
Year: 220,756
Previous Milwordy Wrap Ups: September. October. November. December. January. February March. April
May was another mad dash to the finish line. I only made my goal this month because I wrote 24k words on the third-to-last day of the month.
Yep, I beat my 23k record.
Suddenly the gigantic word count days have become a part of my strategy for finishing Milwordy. That was…not how I thought this would go.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud of my big word days. They’re like little tests of endurance. Plus, there’s something fun about starting a story and just…continuing. For 24k words. In 24 hours.
But is it the best way to write? Probably not.
Don’t get me wrong, those 24k words weren’t all bad or anything. I’m actually really excited about how coherent they were, even the ones written after I was already feeling the fatigue of a long day. But while it can be a fun challenge occasionally to have a huge word count day, I’d rather not have my whole Milwordy success be pinned on that.
I only hit my word count target 13 days out of the 31 last month. If you’ve been reading along, you might remember that 13 is the exact same number of days I hit my goal in April. Only it’s worse for May because I actually had 31 days instead of 30 to try.
I thought I said I wasn’t going to be doing that again? Sometimes the hardest person to be honest with is myself.
So, I’ve got 3 months left of this challenge. I’d like to tell you that I’m not going to absolutely murder my vocal cords by writing 24k+ words in a day again, but I honestly don’t know if that’s a promise I can make. It’s an aspiration for sure, but nothing I’m writing in stone.
If I’m being really honest, I kind of can’t wait for this challenge to be over.
Is it obvious?
It’s not that I haven’t had fun with it—at times it was TONS of fun! And I’ve learned a lot, both about writing itself and about discipline. Plus, I now have a load of raw material to work with when this is all over.
Like…a LOT of raw material to work with.
But that’s part of the problem, I’m ready to dig back into what I’ve written, but mostly I still have to wait 3 months because, generally speaking, revision is not going to give me the word count I need.
But 3 months really isn’t that long and I think that there is value in finishing what you start. So, for the next 86 days, I’m refocusing and getting it done.
One million words—here I come!
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