On the subject of writing goals, and my consideration towards a writing group goal, I have also joined (in mind, at least) with the Inkygirl 1000 Words a Day Challenge. You will see the badge for this, plus some goal bars in a new sidebar section on this blog.
Note: firstly, I had to update my wordpress theme, which was having some problems with the latest version of Wordpress. And that’s put me out by several hours trying to fix all the problems which inadvertently happen when any upgrade takes place. I am now missing some sidebar components, so if you spot any other errors in display or general weirdness please tell me.
If you click through to the Inkygirl blog and read about the 1000 Words a Day challenge (there is also a 500 words a day challenge) you will find a very good list of wordcount blog widgets to use. I’ve selected the Wordpress widget by Jason Penney, because it allows me to run with multiple barcount widgets. I’ve put up three main goal widgets up there. However, updating the wordcounts per day is always a manual task, but at least workable via a text widget in my sidebar.
The 1000 Words a Day challenge is aptly explained on Inkygirl’s blog, and normally I would say this would be achievable for me. However, the challenge suggests writing this amount of words for six days a week. I only write on five days of the week, keeping the weekends for my family. So the trends may be a little different for me, particularly as we are entering the summer school holidays here in the UK next week, and the repercussions of that and priorities on my blog writing at least.
But a goal is simply that – a goal to aim for. And putting these into a sidebar panel is another way to publicise and use that pressure to ensure I attempt them.
And that….is another 330 words done.
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Tue, Jul 14, 2009
Goals & Task Management, Personal Writing Journey, Writing Inspiration