It is ten past three in the afternoon on the last day of my writing challenge, and the last day of the year. I would say that I have my work cut out for me, and perhaps I do, but I still predict a win. I did 4200 words on the penultimate day, with the penultimate amount of motivation. I have fewer words than that remaining now, so I should be okay, baring a minor or serious catastrophe like a secret Nostradamus quatrain showing that he moved up the date of his Armageddon in order to edge out the competing Mayan armageddon and stay at the top of the news cycle, along with casting the first brimstone.
Since this the last day of the challenge, I have moved to a single progress bar, since they will both display identical information now. The only thing I have to remember now is that I can’t simply stay up late writing, since the clock stops at midnight.
Writing tally:
- 23 articles
- 3 blog posts
- 10 bookmark posts
- lots of e-book pages
Progress meter:
Final notes: this may be my last post of the year and I do not expect to do a challenge similar to this next month, although I will do some kind of challenge(s) in 2012, perhaps related to e-book publication. I will update here with the win, or else at midnight!
———————-WIN
with nearly 3 hours to spare!
So I am back from my holiday sojourn to the South Okanagan and as feardicted my writing output for this challenge was nil, although I did get a very good slice of research done. Now, here I am down to the last three days (also secretly feardicted) with a not insurmountable, yet somewhat mammoth hump to climb in order to reach the keystroke mountaintop. Nevertheless, I press on, the rare brew pot in lieu of tea pouring hot down my gullet, mixed with spirit steeling cocoa powder and coconut cream…
P.s: The graphs will be back when I finish my first significant writing task for the day.
This Month’s Project Tally (UPDATED Dec 30th LATE) :
- 20 articles
- 2 blog posts
- 10 social bookmarks
- 20 e-book pages
Today’s Projects:
- 2 or 3 articles
- 1 blog post
- Undetermined amount of e-book pages (more than zero).
- About 4200 words (which is about my best Nano day output this year, I think). I only need 3800 words per day to win, but I am assuming I will be preoccupied with end of the year activities at some point that will cut into writing time.
Percentage of minimum writing pace!
(note: I just deducted two days writing from 25k for this total, so I have eliminated the 600 word buffer that was included in the previous totals).
Overall progress:
UPDATE DEC 29th late: I finished with fewer than 2200 words today, so it looks as though I will have my work cut out for me. I will have to do over 4700 words on Friday and Saturday in order to win the 25000 Non-fiction Writing Challenge. I still believe that it is very possible, since I have gotten close to this number with much less number during Nanowrimo, but it will be ultra-grindmatic.
