A few weeks ago I started keeping track of how many words per day I write.
| WHEN | TOTAL | AVERAGE |
| Week 1 | 6226 | 3113 |
| Week 2 | 7559 | 1080 |
| Week 3 | 5656 | 808 |
| Week 4 | 7821 | 1564 |
I’ve been trying to work out a suitable goal for my writing. I don’t know whether I should make my goal X words per day, or XX words per week. I’m leaning towards a weekly goal, since then I can do more on one day, then take a break another day. I like variety in my schedule, and I don’t want to feel locked doing something every single day, even if I don’t want to.
And the fact is, I feel that if I force myself to write at times when I really don’t want to, then that writing won’t be so good, so there’s no point in doing it. It’s best to be flexible, and write when I feel like writing.
I think, if I make my goal a weekly total of 6000 words, that would be a good starting place. Then, once I achieve that goal regularly, I’ll up it to 7000.
How do you guys write? Do you set daily/weekly goals? Do you meet them?
