(writing/metrics) The First Two Months of 2011

[vg_ford]

So this year, I've been trying to keep track of how much and how often I'm writing. I love Excel spreadsheets, so I have one made up, a sheet for each month, tracking my various projects and when I'm working on them, and also when I'm doing my Morning Pages. I haven't even really added up any totals for the year yet, so I'll be interested to see how I'm doing. I feel like I haven't really done anything, but who knows.

Let's see what the spreadsheets say.

January 2011:
Wrote 5 days
Morning Pages: 2 days
Projects worked on: Tales of the Scorned Lady, Last Rites
Total Words: 3059

Ugh.

February 2011:
Wrote 8 days
Morning Pages: 6 days
Projects worked on: Tales of the Scorned Lady, Last Rites, The Sun Never Sets
Total Words: 12467

Better, but not great.

Total words for the year: 15526

I need to get better. This is why I don't have things to submit, or to even try and Kindle on my own. I'M NOT WRITING ENOUGH.

This needs to change, obviously. And just as obviously, when I write my morning pages, I tend to write other things. Ergo, I need to write more morning pages.

The goal for the next week: get up every morning. Get tea. And then go into the Lair, pull up my morning pages blog, and write my morning pages. Then, open one of the WIPs and write 350 words.

I'll be reporting back here on how I do.