It's nice to see so many people joining the craziness this month. It's been a while since I posted my progress, and I just passed a milestone so I thought I'd do that:
My start date was August 1st, and here's my current wordcount:
And I was wondering the other day how this rather large goal actually breaks down into more doable steps, so I did a bit of math.
Goal: 350,000 in one year 12 months in a year = 29,167 words per month 52 weeks in a year = 6731 words per week 366 days in a year* = 956 words per day
Note that these numbers are rounded to the nearest whole number, not to mention that the year doesn't work out precisely in terms of months and weeks, so these are very approximate numbers.
That's actually a bit more than my actual daily goal, which is 900 words a day. Thankfully I generally do write more than 900 words on average, since I don't stop right at 900.
And as for my own progress, according to the calculations I just made, I should have had approximately 160,500 words by January 15th, so I'm doing well ^_^