500 words a day or I pay

[flonnebonne]

How I force myself to write now: I gave my brother $5, and if I don't write an average of 500 words per day this month, he gets to keep the cashola. (Actually, it's only $2 for January, since we started in the middle of the month, but it'll be $5 next month.)

My brother is totally okay with "helping out" in this way. In fact it was his suggestion.

I am enough of a cheapskate that this is actually working.
 

Comments

[februaryfour]

I LOVE THIS. ♥ *is dying of laughter*

[flonnebonne]

I guess I'm glad I'm a cheapskate?

The only problem is that I'm revising my first nano draft now, and how do you do word counts for revision? It will lead to cheating the system!

[februaryfour]

Revision should be excluded. Really. Word counts really only count when drafting/writing!

[flonnebonne]

B-but these are major revisions! Changing character personalities and gender and the whole premise of the story! I can't really write any more without doing these revisions first.

[qem_chibati]

What works, works!

Do you use MS word? You could use the track changes feature to work out what is *new* words, and then word count that? :3

[flonnebonne]

I'm using Scrivener! That would be a fantastic idea if I were using Word though.

Hm. Will have to figure this out.

[qem_chibati]

Another way is to maybe say for every 1000 words revised, is worth 100 words?

[flonnebonne]

Hm, that's an idea! Thank you! I think I'll do that once I've hammered out some of the basic plot and character stuff I'm working on right now. It's really important I get these foundational things right, or else I'll end up writing a lot of wasted words later.

[pete_thomas]

Hahaha, whatever gets you writing, go for it. :)

[flonnebonne]

Am I right? AM I WRITE?