Write every day! - December 2020 - Day 1

[zwei_hexen]

Welcome everybody to another round of WED! I hope you've all survived this crazy year as well as possible until now, and also not done too badly writing-wise. To all those who tackled NaNoWriMo and similar writing challenges, congratulations for participating, keeping strong, fighting the empty pages and of course winning!

Please don't hesitate to ask sylvanwitch or ysilme any questions you have.

Tally for January 2020:
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Let us know if we missed you or if you didn't check in for a while, so we can add you. Of course joining the fun is possible at any point.
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ysilme here: Please excuse me for sticking to the technical barebones so far; I've had an extremely draining family situation yesterday, a horrible night, and resolving but even more draining events today. I'll write about my writing goals and plans in a day or so, but today I'll leave the field for sylvanwitch. I'm looking forward to host again and talk to you, after having made myself so rare these last months.


sylvanwitch here: Welcome one and all! I'm so glad we're sharing this month with you, and I'm very much looking forward to hearing about your writing projects.  My plan for December is to finish the novel I've been working on for months.    I'm at 106.5K words on it now, and I'm hoping to finish the first draft by the end of 2020.  Generally, I shoot for 500 words/day, but to make it to the end before the year's done, I'll need to do at least 800 words/day, so that's my goal. 

Comments

[thevetia]

I dropped out of November half-way through so I'm trying to make good on December!

I have a story I've been fighting with for months that I'm trying to finish this month. Currently at 6k words and barely 3/4 finished. Today I realized I've been heading in the wrong direction and failing to write the story points that inspired me in the first place, so no wonder I kept stalling out!

Dec 1: a couple hundred words of outline to refocus myself on the true point of the story.

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, good luck with re-directing! It's exciting that you've figured out what was bothering you. I hope the outlining helps you get to where you both need and want to be with the story!

[ysilme]

Welcome to zwei_hexen, and good luck with your writing goals! I'd say having analysed the problem is going to make all the difference now!