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I found an email from a group email convo from late last year that said my goal for the year, including fan fic estimated pages, was going to be 50,000. Which is helpful because at least I know I won’t have fallen down on my page goal for the year. Although I did stop keeping track of my fanfic pages read about 9 months ago which is aggravating because maybe I’d be able to make the 60,000 if I had kept up with them. But I didn’t and as much as I would like to believe I will next year, I can say with some confidence that I probably won’t because it’s way more annoying than in might seem. It’s not so bad if it’s from AO3 but I spend a lot of time reading little ficlets on tumblr that are between 500-1,200 words and I usually binge a few of them at once. To stop and attempt to copy them into a word doc to get their word count to use to estimate their page count in a spreadsheet is just really not fun at all. Maybe I’ll track some of the big ones if I read them on my Kindle, but there will still be a whole lot that go unrecorded. I’m going to allow myself to count any of them that I do bother to record though, for sure. I did keep track of a few things from this year and they add up to 197 more pages, but I don’t think that makes a big enough difference in trying to reach for 60,000. *Sigh.* Well, I’ll definitely get to 55,000
The other thing I should probably mention is that I always start the challenge for the next year on December 28th. I have to have whatever challenge I’ve given myself completed by December 27th. Every year I’ve managed it which has left me too antsy to start the challenge for the next year to wait any longer. I know. Total weirdo.
Well, I guess what I could do is decide that I would give myself until the end of December 31st to reach 60,000 pages. It’s not a big difference days wise but it’s the difference between have to read 300 pages a day and reading like 265 pages a day. I mean, I know that probably doesn’t sound like a big difference but I can read a graphic novel in an hour maybe an hour and a half and that’s like 170 pages right there. If I spend a little of my car ride listening to an audiobook, I should be able to make that. It would be a stretch. I might not quite make it. But I think that might be worth it to try...
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