200,000 in 2008
Written on January 1st, 2008 by Matt. Filed under Scribtotum. Tagged with 200K in 2008, goal, habit, persistence, Pilgrimage, word count, Writing.
I wrote today. 426 words of manuscript, plus sundry pre-writing.
It’s been a while. December was mostly a wash, I’m afraid.
I have a goal for 2008, though. Not to finish any particular work… although I will finish and release “Pilgrimage.” No, really.
The goal: 200,000 words in 2008.
That’s really just a little less than 550 words a day on average. Shouldn’t be that hard. There are good days when I can pound out three, four, five times that. Which is fortunate, as they will make up for the days I do much less, or nothing at all.
200,000 in 2008. Who’s with me?
I’m no novelist, so I can’t commit to 200,000 with you. But I wish you the best of luck!
go matt go. you can do it.
Just do it, man! Don’t think about it, just do it. :D
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