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[spindle_ella]

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GetYourWordsOut: Year Twelve!
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Doing this again. The wordcount challenge was the opposite of helpful for me, but the habit tracker has been great the two years I've done it.

Comments

[cornerofmadness]

good luck. I'm also doing the habit one

[spindle_ella]

Thank you, and good luck to you too! I find the habit one so much better because I can count necessities like editing without stressing about how I could be adding to my word count.

[cornerofmadness]

Exactly. I already have one editing regime in Jan for my publisher. The first one will add to the count but the other two not so much. ALso their word count goals are actually pretty high so the habit one just works better for me.

[spindle_ella]

I’ve found my wordcount is substantially higher when I do the habit one than when I did the wordcount targets. Something about not having to hit it frees me up.

[cornerofmadness]

I can see that happening. It's much easier to sit down and do a little every day than to have the big word count hanging over your head.

[spindle_ella]

And it turns out all the editing racks up the wordcount after all.

[cornerofmadness]

that's often the case for me