Increasing word count each month

[selenicseas]

My goal this year is to write 100,000 words. I spent a bit of time thinking about how to best do that. Last year, I split that goal up into 8400 words per month, with a varying minimum word count per day depending on how many days there were in a month.

I didn't want to do that again, mostly because it didn't work out. What I've come up with instead is a goal that gradually increases every 1-2 months until I reach 100,000 words by the end of the year. I start off writing 7000 words in January, and end the year writing 10,000 words in December:

• January & February: 7,000
• March: 7,500
• April & May: 8,000
• June & July: 8,500
• August & September: 9,000
• October & November: 9,500
• December: 10,000

This actually adds up to 102,500, but that's fine with me as I don't want to fine-tune the numbers each month to account for that extra 2,500.