Hiya. I’m Rachael, and welcome to your new challenge. Ready?
36,000 words sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? 144 manuscript pages? But when you break it down to 1,000 words, three times a week, isn’t that something you can do?
Here’s where I am in all this: I can write a thousand, even two thousand words a day. But it’s regularity that I lack. Unless I’m doing Nanowrimo or something else that’s crazy and life-altering, it’s easy to push today’s writing to tomorrow. So three thousands words in a week, nah, that’s not that much. But it’s also so easy NOT to do, right? That’s the point.
So let’s write. I’m starting today, Sunday, March 11th. I am keeping track of my words planned and completed with a simple Google Calendar, and in 12 weeks, I’ll be 36,000 words richer. How ’bout you?
Join us here by leaving a comment (or by sending me an email at writeagogo@gmail.com) and I’ll send you an email telling you how to register as a user.
You’ll be able to blog here about what you’re doing, and HOW you’re doing it.
We’ll keep track of each other’s failures and successes (and just sitting down and getting ANY words on the page is a success, right?), and we’ll get more words down than we would have without this challenge, right?
Me, I’m writing 3000 words a week. You could write two poems a week. Or for four hours a week. I welcome you to go for the word-count with me, but it comes down to this:
Challenge yourself to do something you KNOW you can do reasonably, but aren’t doing right now. Then tell us your goal, and tell us the reward you plan to give yourself, and we’ll cheer you on. (This won’t be the place to post your work — you can do that on your own blog. But feel free to leave us a link to where we can find it!)
Now. Let’s go!
Hi! I’d like to join, please!
Count me in, I really need the extra push to get done.
Thanks!
hi! i’m in! i have to think about what i can realistically challenge myself to…but voicing my commitment to the world should spur me on to do that.
Sign me up!
I’d like to join–I’ve just been thinking it’s time to get back to my half-finished NaNovel and try to do something with it.
Count me in!
Write on! Do knitting patterns count as ‘writing’? They do? Excellent! xo
I’d like to join in… not sure if I’ll get anything done or not, but I hope the accountability will help me. I won’t be able to start until Tuesday though.
Does blog writing count? LOL.
Sign me up too. I’ve got 3 articles I’ve been struggling with forever. Hopefully this will give me the push I need to get them done (and published!?) Thanks Rachel!!
Sign me up! This will be the perfect segue into going back to school for me (and, you know, writing all those scholarship essays).
Count me in! I need the push to get back into things!
I’m in; I’ve barely done any writing since NaNo. Thanks for the nudge!
Okay, I’m on board too. I have all this time to write and fill it with other tasks. Let’s see what happens now.
Well (that deep subject), it is time and past time to correspond with good folk across the nation and around the world whom I left behind in a series of moves. I have unpacked a “shelf-full” of (gasp) unanswered mail. So, I hope that letters, good old pen and ink letters, will count, for starters. Notes and letters. Usually when I feel guilty, it is because I am… Yes, with some thoughtful pushing of a pen and some self-stick stamps, my conscience could be clear… Write on, dear Rachael, and we will follow!
xxooxx Eireishrose
you are amazing. this is such a good idea… count me in! (let’s not think about my runagogo total for the moment… it’s still early in march yet
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Add me to the list please! I definitely need the motivation to write something other than my blog.
I’m in. Maybe I’ll actually update my blog now, rather than letting it sit dormant. Thanks!
This is a very interesting idea, and how cool to see all the various different types of writing people are committing to.
I thought very hard about committing to this, as the thought of adding one more thing to my day is a bit overwhelming. But I also know that these are often the situations that I need to get moving.
I am an ecologist and my goal will be to write articles on biology, botany, and ecology for a young audience, with an eye to eventually getting them published in magazines geared for kids. I will start next week (which is my Spring Break).
Thank you for this. I have to write two scholarly papers in nothing flat and could use a little motivation.
Write on!!
Ooooo….how did you find out I just got a new laptop with the intent of finaly getting serious about writing.
Rachael count me in…now I just have to figure out how use the software ON the laptop.
I’m such a Luddite.
I’m in, there is a novel bouncing around head and this will get me started. I haven’t done any serious writing, so world building will count towards my goal. Words are words, right?
Sign me up, sweets!! I second, third, fourth about the neglected NaNo work. A friend and I have been trying to have a bi-weekly writing group, to mutually motivate… it has been great, but I need this, too. (Also, I am gonna get Shane, my writing buddy, to sign up for writeagogo. =)) There is nothing like giving my word to others, to get the words coming out, rather than leaving them word-soup, percolating in the forefront of my mind all the time. Thanks, doll! Muah.
Oh…goals. I will letcha know. I have to think. I am pretty sure I’d like to do the 3,000 per week with you. Part of me thinks I should try for more. For now, let’s say 3,000- 1,000, three times per week. You are the-bomb-a-go-go.
Umm, my comment dissappeared when I hit “submit.” Maybe I rambled too long.
I am gonna keep this one short, in case it fails, too.
Count me in!! I want to play with my abandoned NaNo works, and have at least two other big projects percolating. Nothing like giving my word to others, toget the words out of my head, onto the screen/page.
I will join you in the 1,000 words, three times a week. (Maybe more?!)
You are the-bomb-a-go-go!!
sign me up! sign me up! Yay, Knitter!
It’s like you read my tea leaves or biorhythms or horoscope or something. I will join you and (gulp) share your goal. Blogless, but not without words, I’ll check in with my progress regularly here, unless you specify somewhere else.
Thanks for the spur under my saddle (and the chance to mix images with abandon)!
I’d like to join!
Sign me up. This is so great! I’m starting a dissertation—here’s all the emotional support and motivation that grad school sometimes lacks….
I tried to leave a comment earlier in the week but it didn’t go through.
After a move, and a long bout with illness I am months behind on my play “Asshole Differential” (about the Bushtapo and prisoners in a black site – it’s a satire- cause the subject matter is so very funny). I am completely blocked and stuck – really stuck. Help.
I need this. I’m in.
xxoo to you and that wife of yours,
Moira
Moira, maybe you can write up a separate post here, outlining the point at which you’re stuck? I bet just reading the comments on your post would help get you un-stuck – heck, just writing it all out for the post might even do the trick in and of itself.
My experience as a Linux/Unix admin has taught me that 9 times out of 10, just accurately describing a problem will bring you to the solution.
I’ve been mulling it over and what the hell, count me in.
Oh! I must do this! I haven’t been able to do NaNoWriMo since it kept conflicting with things like, oh, my thesis (excuse me, my “graduation project” since I’m only a lowly undergrad…whatever, anything that long is a thesis) and this will be greatly motivating!
Between your hint about wordpress and the timely arrival of my new Mac mini, I found the time was right to set up a blog. You’ll find it here: http://writeknitreadpurr.wordpress.com/. Guess that means I’m really in this thing.
Thanks for all the inspiration,
the formerly blogless Toni Finley