Monthly Word Count

This month was very unproductive in relation to my NaNo 09 novel.  I haven’t made my goal of 500 words 6 days a week yet this month but with school starting yesterday I’ll be counting my articles and that should beef up my word count.

Last week I wrote four days on stories, all short, and three of those days I made my 500 words goal.  Yay!

Things that made me happy:

• I wrote four teeny, tiny tales for a friend’s newest family member.  In fact, writing about the little princess while she was being born was pretty inspiring.
• I don’t usually write short stories for anyone other than five year olds but two more adult themed came out and surprised me.

Things to improve:

• My grammar! 
• I’ve tried to work on my NaNo novel but I cringe whenever I open my notebook.
• Repetition, repetition, repetition.

Questions I’m wondering.  Perhaps you know?

• How short can a short story be?
• What do you do when your main characters make you sleepy?

That is all for now.  I’ll be working hard… or hardly working.

500 Word Challenge

Since posting, I haven't been consistent with this lovely challenge so I'm taking the badge down. Wah!

When I reach my goal next week I'll put it back on. Yay!

Hope everyone has a safe last day of 2009 and see you next year.

500 Words a Day Challenge: ONE

December is here and I'm trying to keep the NaNo momentum going.  Starting today I'm going to give the 500 words a day challenge a go.  See the pretty new badge?

This challenge from Inky Girl is very straightforward you need to write 500 words daily, six days a week to do it.

I'm looking forward to working more on my NaNo novel but even more excited to get back to a few children's book series that I've had on the back burner.

Have you tried this challenge or a similar one?  What was it like?