Get Your Words Out - February word count

[flonnebonne]

I wrote 6264 words in Feburary

I've written 19609 words this year. 

I'm 26% of the way to my goal of 75,000 words in 2017. 


Am following advice from the book 5000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Writer Smarter, and am liking it, but my hands hurt! Especially the third and fourth fingers on my right hand. So I'm going to follow one of the last pieces of advice in the book, which is to use voice dictation. It's a weird adjustment, it takes a long time to train the software, and the software/hardware seems kind of finicky, but in the long run it'll hopefully be worth it, both at work and home. 

Also got a little more involved with the GYWO community, which is active and friendly and absolutely wonderful. I tried out some of the community's advice on outlining and productivity, signed up for a bingo card on literary devices (I wish I had chosen genre or setting instead -_-), and participated in a word war--just once, because the schedule doesn't work out with mine, but I'll try again when I'm less busy with work. 

Currently writing: a long, silly FF6 fic, and my assignment for Interhigh 2017! Also need to eventually type out (or dictate?) my silly handwritten Chihayafuru fic, and get back to work on my silly novel. La la la ~

Comments

[lassarina]

Congrats! Well done! That's a great start on your goal :)

[flonnebonne]

Thank you! Good luck to both of us on March goals!

[tuulentupa]

Good going! I've not written anything this year. xD I imagined I would, as the first period this year was really light for me, but... that period just ended and I've done nothing.

[flonnebonne]

Thank you! I know how you feel--I find the more free time I have the less I want to write, strangely. Probably because writing is an escape from work XD

That said, I managed to write a lot during my winter break this year, and I think it's because of Get You Words Out. The goal-setting and support made all the difference.

[tuulentupa]

Goal setting does have a huge effect! it's what has got me through all Nanos, too. Actually, I've been thinking about maybe doing Camp Nano this year. I don't know. Time-wise, not smart, but I kind of want to.

[flonnebonne]

I just looked at Camp Nano--it's not an actual camp, is it? I always thought it was lol.

If you sign up, let me know and maybe I'll sign up too!

[prillalar]

I've been wanting to try dictation too. What software are you using? I thought I'd just give Google Voice typing a try but it doesn't have a command for quotation marks, so useless for fiction.

I'll be interested to hear how it works out for you!

[flonnebonne]

I've just been trying Siri and Google Voice. Not ideal! But I'm planning on getting a good microphone (for more than just dictation) and try the free trial version of Dragon Naturally Speaking. I read this free ebook on the topic:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01DR5TPNW/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1489129255&sr=8-6&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=dragon+writing

Seems difficult to set up!

[prillalar]

I've just been trying the built in Mac OS dictation. So far it seems better than the Google Docs option. I'm actually using it to write this comment! I've only tried dictating fic once, but I was able to draft more words then I would have if I were typing. I will definitely have to write the sexy bits by typing, at least for now. I'm self-conscious enough just dictating. The accuracy is pretty good but I'm using default names like Rick or Steve instead of the Japanese character names which feels a little weird.

[flonnebonne]

I will try out Mac OS too! I'm still running OS X 10.6.8 so might not work that well, but we shall see!

That's a good idea using the generic English names...will try that too!

I might do a long post on GYWO one of these days on being healthy as a writer...once I'm actually healthy as a writer, that is XD