Trix

So I discovered this thing on Tumblr the other day, called Get Your Words Out, or GYWO for short. It's a writing community/challenge thing, where you pledge to either write a certain number of words over the year, or do writing-related activities on a certain number of days throughout the year. There are seven levels of wordcount pledge, and three of writing activity pledge, and there is a lot of flexibility in what words/activities count, which is great for me!

I chose a relatively low-level wordcount pledge because I'd rather not stress myself out needlessly, so I went with 150k words for the year. And unlike NaNoWriMo, which encourages you to write for one thing during the month, GYWO counts words from all the projects you work on during the year, as long as they're all new words. It even counts long meta posts on things like Tumblr, not that I really write those. I think it even counts worldbuilding notes, but I'd have to double-check that.

The community is hosted here on Dreamwidth, and so this account is actually being used for something! I've been terrible at social media since forever, so I haven't logged in here in a while. I'll probably be here more often, though, because of the GYWO community. Although they do have a Discord, so I'll probably be over there as often as not.

I'm not yet sure how I should be tracking my words for each month, as I have to check in monthly or risk losing my membership in the community, but I'll ask others who participate what they do and see if one of those approaches works for me. It's exciting to be a part of a writing community that knows the struggle of being a creative person with ADHD who wants to do better, lol. At least, that's how I'm choosing to interpret the lack of hard or soft restrictions on one's projects. :D