National Novel Writing Month

I have to admit that I utterly failed at National Novel Writing Month! When I say utterly, I really really mean it. I only wrote a few thousand words during the entire month. Before this I had thought that I was making pretty good progress on my story but I hadn't been keeping track of how many words I was writing. This past month though really woke me up to the fact that I have not been making very good progress at all. So I have come up with a document to track my progress every month. It really isn’t much, but I am an analytical person, so I need to give myself concrete goals every day and month. Otherwise I tend to sit at the computer and just bump around online, reading blogs and watching shows. Not very productive for any of my life goals. I have recently started reading Productive Flourishing, which has really inspired me. I first found them when I was looking for different planners. He posts several different planner layouts every month for free. It is only recently though that I started reading his blog and it has been very thought provoking! I have found that a great way to get motivated is to read Productive Flourishing and several other blogs. Their positive energy makes me feel like I can do anything. The only down side to this is that I sometimes feel so motivated that I can’t stop reading, so I have had to put limits on how much I read those a day to make sure that I don’t waste my whole morning getting motivated without actually doing anything!