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Happy NaNoWriMo!

It’s that time of year! While I’m not writing a novel this time, I still want to document the writing I’m doing for fun. So here’s a cute little tracker I made to update my progress through the month toward 50k words. That’s only 1,613 words per day. I can do it...probably.

Way back when I was new to NaNo, Morange - our leader, gave me a table I have used every NaNo since to keep track of my word count for that month. I've decided to make a copy to share with you all! (Please make your own copy before using it).

A little wrap-up of all things Jane fic in June. 

Words written: 18,350

Which puts me here for the year:

By the end of June I was around 4% up on target for the year.

Fics worked on

Exquisite Senses - The second fic in my bdsm verse Appetite & Defiance. Written & posted A ghost hunter!Reddie AU - Written & posted My First Ballum Fic - Written & posted Phan cheating AU - Written & Posted A fwb Ballum fic - about 3k in, not yet posted Phan BDSM Club Verse #3 - 3k in, not yet posted Babysitter Callum AU (Ballum) - about 1k in, not yet posted Phan snowed-in fic - 3k in, not yet posted Other Phan Project -  3.5k written this month, not yet posted

Such a mixed bag this month! I love it.

Fics posted

Phan

Only Your Invention (T, 1.4k, Miscommunication. blind date, texting)

Exquisite Senses (E, 1.8k, Smut, Appetite & Defiance Verse)

The type that sticks around  (E, 1.7k, Smut, dnp cheating on Phil’s SO)

Reddie

A brief encounter  (G, 2.2k, Ghost hunter!AU)

Ballum

All Bar None (E, 2.5k, smut, Ben buys The Vic)

Total number posted: 5

Posting for the year looks like this:

Aims for next month

Many of you are currently using my wordcount tracker and tell me that you find it really useful. (Which I love hearing btw, it’s nice to know I’m not the only one who enjoys a good spreadsheet)

I also have available my #weekendwordcount tracker for when you are trying to meet a goal over a weekend/short time. I sometimes throw weekend wordcount sprints over on Twitter where I try to write 10k (or whatever our goal is) in a weekend. Come join me!

BUT I’ve recently changed up how I’m tracking my wordcounts/WIPs so I thought I would share the new version with you.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS 

New features include: 

- New monthly tabs with even more numbers!  You can now track the number of words you need to write each day to hit your monthly goals in real time in the monthly tab. This is based on what I put together for nanowrimo this year and I really like the new layout. It’s a bit busier than the previous one so if you prefer simplicity you might want to stick with that.

- Fics Posted graphs Track when/how much you posted throughout the year with this table and graph. You can see when you posted the most throughout the year, and any months where you didn’t post at all

- WIP Tracker By far the biggest addition is the WIP tracker tab. If you’re like me and you have multiple projects on the go it can sometimes be useful to see where you are with each, as well as overall. This trackers wordcount goals, whether something is posted, and how much ou have left to go! so you’ll never get yourself into a chaotic mess again. 

REMEMBER: Embrace the chaos, but also put the chaos in a spreadsheet so that it doesn’t overwhelm you. 

We've come full circle and have now done a year of this! Crazy!

June looked like this:

There was a lot of posting in June because I did fedij (masterlist here) (ao3 series here)

Breakdown of this can be found here

But the writing breaks down like this:

Phew! Lots of projects.

Which leaves out year like this:

Higher than we were this time last year despite fedij being less words.

And July is shaping up to be a little busy too as I work on 4 diff writing projects. Though hopefully 2 of those will be finished soon.

YOU CAN FIND A BLANK VERSION OF THE TRACKER I USE FOR THIS HERE IF YOU WANT TO USE IT FOR YOUR OWN WRITING.

Wow, if I thought March was unproductive, what happened to April huh? 

I mean posting wise it wasn’t, but wordcount wise? yeah. 

Didn’t even break 10k. The days I did write I generally wrote over 1k (minus a couple of days) but I didn’t write as many days as I should have. 

Still, here is how it breaks down:

Mostly things you’ve seen but some bits that I’m working on for another time :)

Here are the things I posted: 

- Parallel Lines (a Prologue) for the @phandomficfests Spring/New Beginnings Fic Fest

- Parallel Lines (Chapters 1 2 and 3)

- Six Centimetres a Second my easter gift for the @easterphandomgifts

So that was it. You can see I’m also working on something temporarily called Hospital (because it doesn’t have an actual title yet) you might see this around... um... June. 

YOU CAN FIND A BLANK VERSION OF THE TRACKER I USE FOR THIS HERE IF YOU WANT TO USE IT FOR YOUR OWN WRITING.