Sunday, 8 May 2011

Streaking Ahead

Dean Wesley Smith's blog is excellent, and I've been following it for awhile now. One of the things he's keen on is work rate. Unsurprisingly a good work rate leads to success for writers. One of the techniques he mentions is putting together a streak: seeing how many consecutive days you can write on.  I thought I'd give it ago. I started on March the 5th and finished 50 days later on April 23rd knowing I wouldn't be able to write on Easter Sunday due to family commitments. It worked well for me, upped my work rate, and 50 days isn't bad for a 1st attempt. Of course, now I'll have to try again, just to beat that first 50 day streak. Since then I've been goofing off , not done much of anything so back to work tomorrow.


April

1st: 745
2nd:593
3rd: 876
4th: 374
5th: 583
6th: 800
7th: 714
8th: 667
9th:  587
10th: 502
11th: 541
12th: 634
13th: 614
14th: 621
15th: 644
16th: 608
17th: 636
18th: 556
19th: 586
20th: 621
21st: 130
22nd: 286
23rd: 323
24th: 0
25th: 660
26th: 619
27th: 537
28th: 0
29th: 0
30th: 0


April Total: 15,483
April Average: 516
Current Streak: 0
Streak Record: 50

5 comments:

Kay Theodoratus said...

Interesting. I'm not the only 500 word a day plodder ... when I'm creating. The words do add up, though, don't they?

Lee Reynoldson said...

Hey, Kay. Took me a while to build up to a 500 word a day plod. I'm hoping to get to a steady 1,000 a day by the end of the year. Next stop 600 a day.

Elizabeth Mueller said...

It's great to follow your own bread crumbs to see how far you've traveled and how much you've accomplished! Great post! and funny picture. ;)

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ralfast said...

Run Lee Run! :D

Lee Reynoldson said...

@Elizabeth - Cheers

@Ralf - hey I'm not quite as clever as Forest (nor as fleet as foot). :D