800 words on my break. book is Smokeless Fire and this is restart number three which im not proud of
rules: post your count every day you can, even if its zero. no restarting. if i restart again you're all allowed to call me out
who's in?
Day 1 of not restarting: daily word count thread
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day 2. 450. forklift broke so the break was short. still counts
day 3. 1,100!! the djinn finally met the owner's daughter and it basically wrote itself. set a daily target of 500 in the app and smashed it by 600, simple pleasures
Good morning. I write 500 words every morning before my walk. Does 500 count, or is this thread for people doing proper numbers? I am 67 and I don't type quickly.
Maggie
500 absolutely counts!! 500 every single day is more than me most weeks tbh. welcome Maggie
day 4, 700 btw
Thank you, Samir. 512 this morning. My sleuth found a dead queen bee on the church step, which was not in my plan at all.
Maggie
day 5. 0. double shift. not restarting tho so it doesnt count as failing, those are the rules i just made up
late to this but i'm in!! i'm revising not drafting so my numbers are weird. today: 2,300 words touched, net minus 400
cutting is progress. cutting is progress
net minus is wild. writing backwards
Hello. I am new here since today. I dictate in the lorry and type at night, so I count only what I type. Tonight 640 words. It is the physics chapter, so it is slow.
May I join this thread?
course you can. another night worker!! what do you drive
HGV, mostly Swindon to the ports. Tonight 900. I think the chapter is bad but it is finished.
finished and bad beats perfect and not there. day 7, 1,050. you're keeping me honest now tomasz
503 words. I took yesterday off for my granddaughter's birthday and felt oddly guilty about it all day.
Maggie
maggie no guilt allowed!! there's a rest day button in Targets & Writing History, it spreads the words over the days you've got left instead of counting it as a miss. i press it every sunday
bad week. 200 tonight, nothing last night. read back chapter 2 on my break and its rubbish and i really really wanted to start again
i didnt. but i wanted to
Do not start again. You will write chapter 2 better when you know chapter 20. This is what I tell to myself also.
samir it's rubbish BECAUSE it's a first draft. that is literally the job of a first draft. proud of you for not restarting
cheers both. 1,400 tonight. angry writing works apparently
Samir, I am glad you kept going. 520 this morning, and my constable has finally arrived at the scene.
Maggie
streak is only back to 3 after my zeros but the calendar in the history bit has more coloured squares than empty ones now, which has never happened in my life
Can I join? Writing a kids' book for my daughter. 620 tonight, 400 of which she'll tell me are boring.
Welcome Callum. Tonight 1,200, with the laptop in the cab at a services. The crew finally reached the ice.
day 14. 700. two weeks without restarting. first time ever. thanks everyone, genuinely
Two weeks is brilliant. My previous personal best at anything is a Duolingo streak that died on a bank holiday.
day 15. 300. knackered. still here
