Writing Diary #2: January 2012

Perpetual

 500 Words a Day Challenge is a writing challenge conceived by Inkygirl (aka Debbie Ridpath Ohi), a Toronto-based writer and illustrator of children's book.  The challenge is simple: try to write 500 words a day, 6 days a week.  It could be the novel you're working on, a blog post, a review, outlining, or anything, as long as you're writing.  There is also a 250 Words a Day Challenge and a 1000 Words a Day Challenge. 

Since this a personal challenge (i.e. every writer decides how and when to "spend" their daily limit), I'm going to track my efforts with a monthly challenge log.  Each day I'll note my word count and what I did to earn it.  Hopefully this will keep me on track.  Initially I was going to attempt the 1000 Words a Day Challenge, but I figure I'll start small and see how it goes.  I'm more than positive I can write 500 words a day, but 1000 might be tricky.

| December 2011 | January 2012 | Feburary 2012 | March 2012 | April 2012 | May 2012 | June 2012 | July 2012 | August 2012 | September 2012 | October 2012 | November 2012 | December 2012 |

1 January
Day 3 - Doctor Who fanfiction - scrap (748).  Final word count: 748.

2 January
Day 4 - The Doctor Reading Challenge (398) plus Doctor Who fanfiction (400).  Final word count: 798.

3 January
Day 5 - Review of Lee, Davison and Smith's Doctor Who, vol. 1: Fugitive (254).  Final word count: 254.

4 January
Day 6 - Miscellaneous story idead (157).  Final word count: 157.

5 January
Break

6 January
Day 1 - See January 7th (below) for, ahem, excuse.  ;)  Final word count: 0.

7 January
Day 2 - Completely and utterly exhausted.  Was up all last night making a cake for a girl at work (her daughter's 16th birthday) with only a week's notice.  Turned out quite well ($80).  So don't expect any writing.  Final word count: 0.

8 January
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9 January
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10 January
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11 January
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12 January
Break

13 January
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14 January
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15 January
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16 January
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17 January
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18 January
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19 January
Break

20 January
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21 January
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22 January
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23 January
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24 January
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25 January
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26 January
Break

27 January
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28 January
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29 January
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30 January
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31 January
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In Closing...
I wrote a total ##,### words (out of an estimated 13,500). [list achievements, to-dos for next month, general thoughts, etc.]