Something I've come to realize that I'd like to share with you guys is that if you do just a tiny bit each day... it really, really adds up :). Rocket science, I know, but seriously--how often do we think about that?
More often than not, I'll beat myself up over not having done as much as I thought I should have. Oh no! I only wrote 500 words and I wanted to write 1000. Oh no! I only wrote 1000 words and I wanted to write 2000.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
The truth is, if I write 250 words a day, but I do it consistently, I'll get a lot further than guilting myself out and avoiding writing altogether, for fear of meeting our old friend Failure.
If I write more, then yay! :) If not, then at least I chipped away at it.
How do you guys set about reaching your goals? Are you a quick writer, or do you chip away?
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I do both. Some weeks I chip away, like right now. While other times I do massive writing (nanowrimo and march novel writing month). The most I've done is 50k in 15 days, which was insane. Right now I'm doing a couple of short, handwritten pages a day at most with 150/page average. Both work out in the end because I couldn't do either one for too long.
I actually had this realization today about my wip - I've been chipping away, doing snippets here and there as I have time, and I was shocked to see I'd written 10k in a week, not even trying!
I did try to do nano last year, and got totally burnt out, so I think I must be a chipper :)
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