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To MilWordY or Not to MilWordY...

... that is the question.

With the new year coming up quick, I have to decide if I'm going to attempt MilWordY. I was planning on doing it from January through December 2024, but as the date approaches I think I am getting cold feet.

If you don't know what it is, it's a challenge where you write one million words in a year. It's like NaNoWriMo, but 12 times as long and 33000 words more per month... yikes. In the new year I'm planning on expanding my horizons a bit and writing things that aren't just fanfiction, which would help, since I definitely couldn't do a million words of just fanfiction... but it's still a lot. I set up a WriteTrack challenge for it and gave every Wednesday a weight of 0, basically to simulate missing one day per week. So I'd have to write about 3k a day.

I'll still be writing fanfiction, and doing this might actually help me get through the backlog of stuff I need to get done, but I also want to do some creative non-fiction (book reviews, video game stuff, etc) here on DW and maybe I'll even do some original fiction. It might be possible to do 3k a day with a variety, but as I am kind of in burn out land currently, I am a little hesitant about tackling this challenge.

What do you guys think? Should I try it?

At long last, here it is! The ultimate spreadsheet! Here are the kinds of numbers you can see with it:

Month, Year, and Lifetime Figures

• total words written
• total time spent writing (minutes and hours)
• words drafted
• time spent drafting (minutes and hours)
• words edited
• time spent editing (minutes and hours)
• total words of fanfiction
• total time spent on fanfiction (minutes and hours)
• total words of original fiction
• total time spent on original fiction (minutes and hours)
• total words of non-fiction writing
• total time spent on non fiction-writing (minutes and hours)

Session figures:

• WPM calculated for each session recorded.

It's simple to use. Every time you record a writing session you only have 5 cells to fill in, and two only 3 of them are necessary. But it breaks things down a whole bunch!

Grab it Here!
Spacedog's Ultimate Yearly Writing Tracker Spreadsheet!

I spent so much time working on this sheet for myself that I decided to put it out as a resource for anyone else who wants to use it!

It has a built in tutorial. Once you copy the document into your own drive, you can modify it as you wish. If you have any questions or notice something is broken, leave a comment so I can get to fixing it!