Check-in time?

[wordstitch]

How's everyone doing with their writing this week, now that we've passed the half-way point?  Have you been working on your WIPs?  Made any progress?  Run into any trouble?  Let's talk about it!  


(not sure if I'm supposed to post this, but since nothing was posted yesterday I thought I'd go ahead!)  

 
 

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as for me...

[wordstitch]

This month I signed up for the 750words February challenge, and for the past four days have been hitting the mark consistently. Yesterday was a close call, though, because I got into a miff with my husband and almost couldn't muster up the energy to write. I'm working on a rather heavy, emotionally draining story at the moment so I feel like today might be the day to take a break from that and jump to something a little happier.

Re: as for me...

[retsuko]

Good for you for writing despite emotional upheaval! *high-fives you*

What is the 750 words challenge?

Re: as for me...

[wordstitch]

Thank you!!

It's from this website, and it's basically a challenge to write at least 750 words of whatever you want every day. It's an ongoing challenge, but there are also monthly challenges. I signed up for the February 2015 one since I don't think I can keep up 750 words a day year-round. Still, 750 words a day for a month equals 21,000 words, which means I should have finished the rough draft of at least a story or two by the end.

...Oh, I just realized it's now become a member subscription site. I didn't even notice because I joined so long ago and they gave free lifetime memberships to all existing members before they converted the website to a paying service ($5/mo). Oops! For those who are interested in the site anyway, it offers a pretty blank writing service and keeps track of the writing day by day, automatically analyzes what you write for common words and also puts your text through some sort of algorithm that tells you what the mood/emotional content of the entry for the day is. It also keeps track of how much time it took you to write 750 words in terms of minutes, pauses in-between, and words per minute. It's pretty neat, actually. For example, based on my entry for yesterday, the site told me the following info:

Psychological processes: motion, relativity
Linguistic processes: common verbs
Sense of time: the past
Thinking versus feeling: feeling
Outlook: negative
Emotional: sadness.

(Sorry, I went on too much!!)

Re: as for me...

[retsuko]

No, no, not at all! I didn't realize a site like this existed. That's really cool. In your experience, is the logarithm pretty accurate? Mood is a pretty subjective thing.

Do you feel that being a member on this site has kept you writing? Would it be worth it to pay?

Re: as for me...

[wordstitch]

Yeah, the logarithm is pretty accurate for the most part. It all depends on the words you use. I think the stats are more geared towards people who journal, maybe, and want to see what their outlook for the day/week/month has been? But it's still interesting to look at it and see what the computer says my writing feels like.

And I can't comment on whether it would be worth it to pay since I'm not paying XD I think that kind of thing always depends on the individual, and what motivates them. But it's at least kept me writing this month!

Re: as for me...

[crookedspoon]

Good luck with the challenge! February seems like a good month to start.

Re: as for me...

[wordstitch]

Thanks! Yeah, January was too crazy to even contemplate a challenge like this o.o