Okay, y'all, I did it! I decided to just put the pedal to the metal this morning and get there. After yesterday, I only had 1,640 words to reach my goal. My daily goal is 1,333, which meant that I could stretch it out into two days if I wanted to. In fact, I got to 1,385 and looked at what I had left, and considered it, but then said, "No way."
I went on to write a bunch more words. I finished off the day with 1,991, and I am now 351 words over my goal for the year! I did it!
100.12% folks! The great part is that I still have 128 days in the year. I started this on the day after my birthday, and we're not particularly close to my next birthday. Yet I'm already done. That's pretty great.
Of course, I'm not done. Hitting the goal wasn't the point. That was just a milestone along the way. In this particular case, I'm like a Knight Radiant from Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive. The journey is the destination. What matters is the habits that I made along the way. If I go back to writing nothing all day long, day after day, then I didn't succeed at all.
So, I'm not going to do that. Now, we will just see how mcuh I can get done in the next 128 days. I should be able to write another 128,000 words or so. That will make it much harder to beat my all-time best year in the future.
I also am keen to work on pre-production stuff, outlining, making sure that I have the best possible story to write before I start writing it. That will be my immediate goal. I think I may even skip a few days of writing in that process. I'll have to see what I can do. As long as I'm working every day, that's what matters the most. Work toward the goal every day, and eventually I'll get there.
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