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Forward Motion has a year long marathon. Folks keep track of their word count and aim for one of three goals: 250,000; 500,000; or 1,000,000.
Last year I was well on my way to getting the prized million. Before the year was halfway there, I was already in the 400K range. Then I hit a major slump, did some editing, and some other silly real life stuff and ended the year with 650,433. Still a good count!
This year, because of editing, my word count has been lousy. My goal for this year is the 500,000 one and I am well on my way.
This marathon allows all words to be counted, including blog entries. Other shorter marathons, like the two month ones, only allow words that go in or toward something that may or may not be published.
I have 28106 in various writings.
I have 177864 in writing in WIPs.
And as of this morning, I had 125366 words in posts (the day to day entries)and pages (stuff like my freewriting and all the image pages).
I had to take out those posts/pages that do not fall into this year which brings the blog count to 113822.
That brings the grand total to 319792. Not too bad, although it means I need to write a minimum of 1733 each day for the rest of the year to come out even at 500,000. Today I got 1646. Eh, it'll even out.
I like having goals such as word counts. I feel as if I have accomplished something. The word count is tangible proof I do more than just sit on my ass playing Zoo Tycoon 2 or Shape Shifter.
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