Rietta89

Week One: As chronicled in my previous post, this week belonged to Airdrop, which saw me off to a flying start with a grand total of 9694 words spread over five fics.

Week Two: This was the hardest week so far. At a bit of a loss without Airdrop to write for, I couldn’t get my brain to settle on anything as I waited for the glut of fic to reveal. After nearly giving up on Thursday, I limped to the end of the week only by dint of the random prompts I coaxed black_bentley to send me. With wordcounts varying from 200 words exactly to a high of 389, I scraped through with a weekly total of just 1727 words.

Week Three: Still no progress on the WIP I’d been hoping to pick up by doing this, but I began to settle into the daily routine. As last week, most of my words found their way onto the page after 10pm, but my word counts were on the rise, and I surpassed 400 words on three separate days to finish the week with 2508.

Week Four: Although not the one I’d intended, I finally managed to pick up a WIP on the final day of Week Three, and it carried me through three out of seven days this week. The big difference this week was that I started writing on paper rather than straight on the laptop. Without a little wordcount ticking up in the bottom corner, it suddenly seemed easier to focus—and because my target number of pages is calculated to confidently surpass 200 words without me needing to count up manually every day, my word counts were higher yet. The other bonus was that typing up Tuesday’s words on Sunday morning turned into scribbling away until that fic was done, and so I finished the week with 3634 words, including over 1k of progress on an old WIP, and one entirely new and complete fic (to appear on AO3 shortly…).

Week Five: Well, with only three days left of January, it was never going to be my highest wordcount of the month. As my main focus this week was getting ready for my trip, I didn’t manage anything higher than 270 words, but every little helps! A shade more progress was made on last week’s WIP, and I also picked up another stagnant WIP to add another 500 words. With 719 words added over the three days, I wrapped up the month with a grand total of 19,314 words produced during January.

So, will I keep it up? Definitely. Even though I haven’t had much to show for the last three weeks in terms of actual posted fic, I’m feeling the benefits of writing a little bit every day. I’ve also progressed from exchange fatigue at the beginning of the month to actually missing exchanges and eyeing up a new one to tide me over until H/C! So if anyone fancies joining me in the mane event, nominations begin in ten days’ time ;-)