Word Count & Keeping Up

As you can see, my word count has been somewhat sketchy lately. Either fatigue from work or craziness from the family has been interfering.

But I've taken some steps to address those issues and hoping this coming week will be better.

And although not perfect, I'm still happy with the totals. Always seeking improvement. But sometimes keeping up with work, travel, family and health feels like running up the down escalator.

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New Graph

I've been looking for something relatively easy and dynamic to use for keeping track of my word count. Yes, I have my revision and fresh word counts on the right bar, but I wanted something to account more for my daily progress. As you can see, I've arranged my goal word counts to coincide with days I'm working at the day job and days I'm not.

Since I'm rather particular about what things look like/how they are designed yet not a computer programming guru fluent in three languages, I have reverted to searching the web and various software programs.

So far, this is the closest I've found to what I want. It's only drawbacksat the moment: 1) It's not dynamic, maening I have to change, save and upload every time, and 2) I can't choose it's size, which for use on my blog is a bit large. Otherwise, I really like it. One way around that, is to upload it to blogger as "small" or "medium". Here, I've uploaded it as "medium".

Best yet, it's free, flexible, cusomizable. If you want a graph of your own, check it out here:

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx It's even got a tutorial and sample graphs you can simply alter to fit your needs. Rather awesome IMHO

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Porno & Word Count

Bet that porno reference dragged you in, huh?

If so, check out my blog (posted a tad early) on RWKF -- Pornography vs. Romance.

As for me, my word count for the day is 1258 -- which, I have to admit, does include my blog write-up.

I know--whimpy. But some days you just gotta take it where you can get it.

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Word Count Update

Okay. I eeked them out...all 1092 of them.

Man, today was painful. But I'm done.

Jeez...what day is this? Only day 4?????

God help me.

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Word Count

Not much to report today except word count. Today's progress: 1695 words.

What progress did you make today, in writing or in life?

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Talk, Talk, Talk & Updated Word Count

I'm going to have to find another place to write in the morning.

As most of you know, I typically go to McDonald's to write after I've dropped the girls at school. There are two McDonalds' near my house, the one I've gone to for the five years I've been writing, the one that houses the other regulars who have become like my second-family-slash-fan-club and the new one that's closer and much quieter.

Today I went to the original and one of the regulars started talking to me. And kept talking, and talking, and talking. He's a great guy. And I love people. Love to hear their tales and mine their personality quirks for use in future characters...but, dammit, I've got to get some stuff done!

He talked for forty minutes!

Another regular popped in and piggybacked onto the first regular's conversation and kept me distracted for another fifteen minutes. No sooner had he left than one of the gals who works there whom I absolutely adore came over to chat.

An hour later, I had nothing done. Nothing. Not even a paragraph of my morning pages (that's from The Artist's Way in case you're wondering).

In college I used to have a friend who had this strange ability to draw people to her. They would talk and talk and before you knew it, you knew more about this stranger than your own mother. I was always jealous of that. I wanted to be that kind of person.

Well, guess what...???

It's nice to be loved. It's nice to have others feel comfortable enough to confide and discuss and bitch and dream with you.

I just wish it didn't conflict with my writing time. :-#

Despite the distractions, I managed to hammer out 2218 words today. Imagine what I could get done if I made the newer McDonald's my new home. Only then...I might be lonely. :-D

Are you one of those people who gets their ear bent by strangers?

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