Progress Bars
If you scroll down a little, you'll notice that I've put up some progress bars for my works in progress. Two blog posts gave me the motivation to go and figure out how to get one of these things on my blog: Ali's post about making a goal to hit 1000 words a day and John Scalzi's dismissal of the whole progress bar trend. Actually, I'd never even seen one of these on a writer's blog before, but thanks to Scalzi's pointing them out and Ali's self-motivational techniques, I guess I was somewhat inspired, too.
I'm a slow writer. On top of that, I don't always manage to sit down and write once a day. What I do manage to do once a day, though, is load up my blog (I have an obsession with checking my hit counter, kind of like I do with checking my Amazon ranking). As a result, sticking these bars on my blog will remind me where I'm at every day and, with any luck, they'll motivate me to write at least a little each day.
I'm a slow writer. On top of that, I don't always manage to sit down and write once a day. What I do manage to do once a day, though, is load up my blog (I have an obsession with checking my hit counter, kind of like I do with checking my Amazon ranking). As a result, sticking these bars on my blog will remind me where I'm at every day and, with any luck, they'll motivate me to write at least a little each day.
3 Comments:
I have a progress meter on my novel, it's the one from Nanowrimo, but it works.
Progress bars are a good idea, thanks for the info. I've used the NaNoWriMo also, but I failed - stupid job got in the way. Good luck with your writing.
And here I thought I was the only one affected by the sitemeter sickness.
Grins*
Good luck on the progress bars.
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