{"id":339,"date":"2024-05-28T20:58:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T01:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2024-05-28T20:58:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T01:58:31","slug":"my-writing-schedule-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/28\/my-writing-schedule-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"My Writing Schedule&ndash;Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So last year, I wrote a post about my <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/22\/my-writing-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writing schedule<\/a>.&nbsp; I don\u2019t really have a writing schedule, but I did pretend to have one for a while before I fell of the proverbial cliff earlier this year.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the year, and by that I mean January 1st, I started writing a book.&nbsp; Or at least that is how I referred to it.&nbsp; I started out just trying to build a writing habit.&nbsp; I did this by setting a goal of 100 words a day.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>That seems rather insignificant. And it is rather small.&nbsp; That was intentional.&nbsp; I didn\u2019t want to set some goal that would burn me out after a week.&nbsp; So, every day beginning January 1st, I wrote 100 words.&nbsp; At least.&nbsp; It didn\u2019t take long for that to become 125, then 150, then 200 and then 250.<\/p>\n<p>At the point where I reached an easy 250 words a day, I decided to use the targeting feature in Scrivener to allow it to tell me how many words I needed to write.<\/p>\n<p>First, I set the end goal to be 70k words at the end of October.&nbsp; Then I upped it to 100k words.&nbsp; And then I started moving the date closer each day after I finished writing for that day.&nbsp; It wasn\u2019t tough.&nbsp; I was still only trying to get around 280\/290 words per day. <\/p>\n<p>Then, I took a weekend off.&nbsp; Friday the 19th, I didn\u2019t write.&nbsp; Nor any day between there and May 6th.&nbsp; I am not sure why I stopped, but I basically quit for almost a month.&nbsp; Then wrote on an airplane.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I went out of town to a conference, and wrote during the plane ride to and from the conference.&nbsp; So May 6th and May 9th, I wrote a few more words.&nbsp; And now it is May 28th, and I haven\u2019t written anything today.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Except this post.<\/p>\n<p>Should I get back to writing?&nbsp; Perhaps\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last year, I wrote a post about my writing schedule.&nbsp; I don\u2019t really have a writing schedule, but I did pretend to have one for a while before I fell of the proverbial cliff earlier this year.&nbsp; At the beginning of the year, and by that I mean January 1st, I started writing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[108,52,11],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-writing-thoughts","tag-practice","tag-schedule","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}