I got back into the habit of writing 5k words per day!

[Deleted member 68927]

A couple of days ago, I felt like my muse has left me. But, I got some encouraging words from all of you, and that got me to force myself into continuing to write. I was looking for something to enforce my writing habit. A reward that my brain wouldn't say no to. So, I found WriteNext, a site that gives badges for achievements, keeps an account of how many words you have written, and, in the past 9 days, I wrote 61,143 words. All recorded in WriteNext.

This is from today only. I type only with two fingers, so my typing speed is not too great. (My average is 30 words per minute.) But I do my best. Now, I am going to turn the five chapters I wrote today into an audiobook and finished editing them.

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

A couple of days ago, I felt like my muse has left me. But, I got some encouraging words from all of you, and that got me to force myself into continuing to write. I was looking for something to enforce my writing habit. A reward that my brain wouldn't say no to. So, I found WriteNext, a site that gives badges for achievements, keeps an account of how many words you have written, and, in the past 9 days, I wrote 61,143 words. All recorded in WriteNext.
View attachment 13840This is from today only. I type only with two fingers, so my typing speed is not too great. (My average is 30 words per minute.) But I do my best. Now, I am going to turn the five chapters I wrote today into an audiobook and finished editing them.

Congrats

 

[NotaNuffian]

A couple of days ago, I felt like my muse has left me. But, I got some encouraging words from all of you, and that got me to force myself into continuing to write. I was looking for something to enforce my writing habit. A reward that my brain wouldn't say no to. So, I found WriteNext, a site that gives badges for achievements, keeps an account of how many words you have written, and, in the past 9 days, I wrote 61,143 words. All recorded in WriteNext.
View attachment 13840This is from today only. I type only with two fingers, so my typing speed is not too great. (My average is 30 words per minute.) But I do my best. Now, I am going to turn the five chapters I wrote today into an audiobook and finished editing them.

Congrats

 

[Temple]

Hello dora! Nice to see you here. I've been here for a while. Such a chill place, this site.

 

[AnonUnlimited]

You're on a roll. If you release something that isn't BL... I'll read it.

 

[Deleted member 68927]

You're on a roll. If you release something that isn't BL... I'll read it.

Well, I have a couple:
The Apple Grotto Nymph: kiddie romance between a boy (read merman) and a girl (read nymph.)
Annie and the Rice Quest. (Short fairy tale, the romance is not the main focus, but there is a slight crush between a man and a woman.)
Shelter Rescue (A slice of life with a boyXgirl romance. My newest work. I don't plan any smut in it. Come to think of it, I tend to put smut only in my BLs...weird.)(This one focuses on the plight of animals abandoned in an animal shelter.)
See? I am diverse!
(Although I write mainly BL, which is the truth.)
Come to think of it, I also read mainly BL. So, maybe that is why. Personally, I like to read feels good romances. I guess all my stories would have the same feel if they were just BG, but, there is something alluring about BL that I just can't place my finger on.
Happy reading!

Hello dora! Nice to see you here. I've been here for a while. Such a chill place, this site.

Yes, it is. I tend to come in here after I am done writing out my daily words.

 

[AnonUnlimited]

Well, I have a couple:
The Apple Grotto Nymph: kiddie romance between a boy (read merman) and a girl (read nymph.)
Annie and the Rice Quest. (Short fairy tale, the romance is not the main focus, but there is a slight crush between a man and a woman.)
Shelter Rescue (A slice of life with a boyXgirl romance. My newest work. I don't plan any smut in it. Come to think of it, I tend to put smut only in my BLs...weird.)(This one focuses on the plight of animals abandoned in an animal shelter.)
See? I am diverse!
(Although I write mainly BL, which is the truth.)
Come to think of it, I also read mainly BL. So, maybe that is why. Personally, I like to read feels good romances. I guess all my stories would have the same feel if they were just BG, but, there is something alluring about BL that I just can't place my finger on.
Happy reading!

Yes, it is. I tend to come in here after I am done writing out my daily words.

I have added them to reading list. Most of my smut/romance is GL, but I explored a Poly romance which I found a bit more complicated than I would like. Still, I've seen you post but never read any of your works so I'll have to take a look.

I don't have anything but GL/Poly smut so don't feel obligated to read it, I don't expect that.

 

[Deleted member 68927]

I have added them to reading list. Most of my smut/romance is GL, but I explored a Poly romance which I found a bit more complicated than I would like. Still, I've seen you post but never read any of your works so I'll have to take a look.

I don't have anything but GL/Poly smut so don't feel obligated to read it, I don't expect that.

If you write a BG, I don't ask for BL since you don't seem to like it, I'll read it.

 

[AnonUnlimited]

If you write a BG, I don't ask for BL since you don't seem to like it, I'll read it.

I appreciate that.
I'm keeping my smut author persona separate and anonymous from my serious author persona so if you were looking for a philosophical novel someday in the future you might accidentally read it without knowing :).

Have a good night (or day). I'm off to bed now where I am.

 

[XKARNATION]

Make sure to remember quality > quantity, unless you are writing a cultivator novel, then quality doesn't matter! :)

 

[ArcadiaBlade]

 

[Noel_Elitia]

marvellous

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Congratulations!

 

[lambenttyto]

This is from today only. I type only with two fingers, so my typing speed is not too great. (My average is 30 words per minute.) But I do my best. Now, I am going to turn the five chapters I wrote today into an audiobook and finished editing them.

I write with 2-3-4 fingers, but I have two main fingers that I use. I used to manage 90 words a minute on a flat top chicklet keyboard. Now that I have amechanical keyboard, it's actually slowed me down because you have to press the keys down further, and it creates an indent into the board of keys, so I can't ice skate over the keyboard with my fingers anymore, lol.

I was doing 6k a day in the Royal Road Writathon. It's a lot of work. I feel I could sustain it if I was making a living writing, but for me, 3k a day (a million words a year) is comfortable.

Have you considered that maybe you're pushing yourself too hard to write all those words and maybe that's causing you not to write? I admit, after doing those 6k a day, I've not written in days. I don't know if it's the amount that I've written that's kinda burnt me out, or rather that I've been with the same story for 150,000 words. I get bored after around 30k, so I tend to hop from volume to volume on different projects to keep myself interested and refreshed. It works really well for me.

 

[Deleted member 68927]

I write with 2-3-4 fingers, but I have two main fingers that I use. I used to manage 90 words a minute on a flat top chicklet keyboard. Now that I have amechanical keyboard, it's actually slowed me down because you have to press the keys down further, and it creates an indent into the board of keys, so I can't ice skate over the keyboard with my fingers anymore, lol.

I was doing 6k a day in the Royal Road Writathon. It's a lot of work. I feel I could sustain it if I was making a living writing, but for me, 3k a day (a million words a year) is comfortable.

Have you considered that maybe you're pushing yourself too hard to write all those words and maybe that's causing you not to write? I admit, after doing those 6k a day, I've not written in days. I don't know if it's the amount that I've written that's kinda burnt me out, or rather that I've been with the same story for 150,000 words. I get bored after around 30k, so I tend to hop from volume to volume on different projects to keep myself interested and refreshed. It works really well for me.

I have this thing I do. I write the first 4k words in one setting, in the morning, and I take a long break before the final 1k. And I do cycling. Before I start to write my chapters for the day, I check the outline I made after I was done writing yesterday's chapter. So, if there is something I had an idea for in chapter 10 but didn't write about until chapter 16, then, in chapter 17, I go back to it. You know, a strategy from Writing into the Dark that I picked up recently.

 

[lambenttyto]

I have this thing I do. I write the first 4k words in one setting, in the morning, and I take a long break before the final 1k. And I do cycling. Before I start to write my chapters for the day, I check the outline I made after I was done writing yesterday's chapter. So, if there is something I had an idea for in chapter 10 but didn't write about until chapter 16, then, in chapter 17, I go back to it. You know, a strategy from Writing into the Dark that I picked up recently.

Very nice. I can easily say that Dean Wesley Smith is the most influential writer teacher for me, and I've read a lot of books on writing.

 

[melchi]

Gratz!

I can type about 30 without it starting to hurt my hands. The biggest barrier is trying to think what to write next though.

 

[FGCCheckmate]

You ever heard of 4thewords? That's my go-to word count tracker. Although it doesn't keep track of your WPM, it turns writing into a fun little RPG adventure.