#did 30k for july camp (swiftpaw’s chance baby!)

[wander-wren]

so, this is nice to see. like. sometimes it just feels like i’m not accomplishing anything, right

my ao3 wordcount for 2022, as of today:

that doesn’t include at least 120k of original stuff, if somewhat sleep-deprived memory serves. that doesn’t count the 20k oneshot rotting while i put off finishing the last scene, or the 60k fic that’s just getting started. it doesn’t include ideas i started and pushed aside halfway through.

i hate to risk sounding like i’m bragging but damn. it’s not a lot. it’s not anything, to most people, especially being that it’s free labor.

but that’s half a million words there, easy, and i know all of them are good. i have faith in my competence.

whatever else comes out of this year, i did that much. and i know wren from last november wouldn’t have dreamed of a 500k year, let alone a 500k year i wasn’t even trying to pull. the only person i ever have to impress is my former self, right?

#bird noises #im emo tonight about it #fanfiction #objectively my writing journey is kind of bonkers insane from 2019-now #tried nano for the first time in 2019. super intimidated and stressed. hit 48k #skipped april camp #did 30k for july camp (swiftpaw’s chance baby!) #fuckin. stumbled into the overachievers forum in october #told myself i would set three tiered goals of 50k/75k/100k #but i knew day 1 i was lying to myself #hit 100k nano 2020 #accidentally prepped so hard for april camp i wrote 60k in march and collapsed #i donttttt remember july i think i skipped it #came back nano 2021. 125k. started a week early too #130k novel in five weeks and some other work i did in the last couple days of nov #i felt fucking feral for that one #i never properly counted last april but it was somewhere high. 80k? #again #dont remember july’s final number but i do think it came out similar to april #i stopped tracking my words this year sooo #and i donttttt think i got to 100k this month but i just started college i gotta cut myself slack #DEFINITELY over 50k but ill do a final count in the morning #we’ll see