Need More Words

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I need to write! I’m so close to my goal for the month. I need about 2000 more words between today and Tuesday in order to make the goal I made for myself. I got behind on my goal for the year so I’ve been trying to make up some of that loss. I got behind enough to know that I need to average about 635 words a day from now until the end of the year. My initial goal was an average of 600 words a day, but with being a little short in May and getting only about halfway to my June goal, I’m a good deal farther behind than I’d like. I wanted to try to make up for some of that this month. Maybe average more like 650 or 700 words a day to take some of the pressure off future months like September and October when I’ve got lots of stuff going on, but I couldn’t quite get there. I’m not too terribly upset by that. In all fairness, this is the best writing month I’ve had in the last three or four months so I can’t complain. I was able to write two fanfic stories and one Writer’s Cramp story as well as some bits and bobs of other things. I think this is the least hard my stories have fought me all year, so I’m certainly thankful for that.

It has felt wonderful to produce at that level too. I mean, I know that other people somehow manage to pump out over a thousand words a day, and I have done that here and there, but I’m trying not to compare myself to other people. I’m trying to remember that comparison kills confidence and creativity. The best thing I can do is try to improve myself and that’s what I’m doing by pushing myself to write. And now apply for grad school. So yeah, I just need to pump out some more words. I can do that. I’m really close and I can do it.