Friday Rants and Raves - May 2

[sarillia]

Hello all! It's been another week. How has life been treating you and your writing?

This week's picture is Jean Leon Gerome's Cave Canem (Beware of Dog).

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[perfectworry]

Every month, I count up how much I wrote. This month, I've started including handwritten work in that tally (counting the exact word counts of a few pages then averaging then rounding to the nearest easy number (and doing this for each different handwriting size, as mine fluctuates wildly)) and my total is 29,465, up from ~7,000 in March. (I didn't include handwritten work in March, but it wouldn't've bumped it up over my monthly average of ~12,000.) I just yesterday found a few more pages, bringing me up to a little over 30,000 words last month.

In April, I participated in NaPoWriMo. I haven't written poetry for years, not really, but I scribbled out (banged out on my keyboard, more like) a poem every single freaking day. (I'm bummed that I didn't hear about the April A-Z until too late, but I've got it saved for next year.) In May, I'm doing Story a Day.

… sorry this is more "how was your month" than "how was your week," but since April ended, I've been doing my monthly clean-up.

[sarillia]

I got used to looking how I did over a month too since I started writing through NaNoWriMo. You did great!

I tried doing NaPoWriMo one year but it just proved to me that poetry is really not my thing.