Tag: word count
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My NaNoWriMo
Ah, November has come once again to the writing community. That means that scores of writers will be trying their hand at the challenge of NaNoWriMo. For those of you not hip to it, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. And therein it is the challenge for each writer participating to attempt to write…
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Good Habits Die Easy
Resurrecting good habits has been on my mind lately. Specifically I speak of some old writing habits that I had in the past. Even the recent past. Two come to mind as habits that I should look into bringing back: writing 100 words every time I log onto a computer and writing 500 words before…
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A Gravitational Dilemma
I wrote a post about novellas a while ago. I like novellas. There’s a nice balance in that format between being faster to read but still retaining a good amount of content. It’s partly why I chose to write my sci-fi series Gravity in that format. Then came book 4. I am still writing. And…
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A Week of Words
I’ve written every day since 2/2 this year. My per day average was just a smidge over 1500 words. All of this was thanks to the little rule I implemented. Then yesterday happened. I wrote 0. Nothing. Nada. Part of me wants so badly to piss on myself about it, to tell me that I…
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100 Words
That’s it. 100 words. In the grand scheme of my life, that is about 2 to 5 minutes of my time. I waste plenty more than that in the course of a day. Everything from playing games on my phone to blindly surfing the internet. I waste a ton of time. So yesterday I made…
Jeremy C Kester 