New daily writing goal on novel - 5by5

Okay, so 250 words a day is not working so well for me. Here I am on day 4 of that and I should have 1,000 words toward my novel... I'm about 1,000 words shy of that mark at a nice round zero.

New determination hit me this morning though, and I think it might just work. I am not going to promise to write a page worth of words, or a paragraph or anything else.

My new goal. 5by5. I am going to write five words by 5 p.m. each day of the week 5 days a week. If the muses want to keep going I certainly will not make them stop, but the goal here is, I have to have five words added the page by 5 p.m. every weekday (M-F).

Five words ain't too much. And if you leave out the 'ain't ain't a word' type cheats, then it gets harder to keep your count to just five words, because - Five words is not too much work to fit into an afternoon.