Hi all! I'd just like to send a massive thank you to Bethany for providing such a simple, easy-to-use word counter for November's writing challenge. I'm up around the 18,000 word mark (my target started off as just 15 minutes a day, then became 500 words) and I'm really happy with it. And... I think I want to carry on? I hate myself every day when it comes to writing time, but I'm happy with quite a lot of what I've produced AND I'm enjoying the actual writing once I've sat down and got on with it (it's always the same when I do a writing challenge, you'd think I'd learn!) So, as the title says - what happens when November ends? Both in terms of "does the site stay up all year round?" and "what are other people doing in December?" Jane

Thankyou, I'm glad you've found it useful! And congratulations on your amazing progress! So, I want to keep this site focused on November as the main event, but I also don't want to abandon it completely throughout the year. You can of course use the custom goals however you like, but I also plan 3 events: 1. 80h edit. I know people often let their drafts rest a bit, then jump into editing in the next yeah. So, I'm thinking a time-base edit goal in Jan/Feb might be good, 60 days long works out to 80 minutes a day, which seems like a satisfying number to me. 2. Mid-year writathon. Inspired by Camp Nanowrimo. I'm thinking this one should be two months as well, but a goal of 75,000 words. That's closer to many genre expectectations, and is a less intense pace than 50K in 30 days. 3. Preptober. Time based goal based on preparing for november. I'm not sure what the target should be —maybe it should be consitency focused? Like, dedicating 15 minutes every day or something. Open to suggestions. For year-long writing, I think https://writingmonth.org/ are targetted on setting writing goals on a monthy basis.

Oh, thanks for the recommendation for writingmonth.org, I'll check that out. As for editing, that sounds like a good idea. I tend to edit a bit as I go, but I could do with having an editing goal to aim towards with the next chunk of my writing, so January/Februaryish might work well. I haven't been trying to do the 50k in a month thing, but I have found that 15 minutes a day is a really good goal. You can make yourself write for that long every day even if you're really really busy or a massive procrastinator. I've done it before and have ended up with some quite interesting stuff. I always set it so that I can write for *longer* than 15 minutes, but that has to be the minimum. That's what it was meant to be this time but it turned into 500 words a day. My most was 991! Anyway, thanks again for giving me a space to keep track of my writing, and hope to be back again next year for the editing round!

Replying to Bethany: Thankyou, I'm glad you've found it useful! And congratulations on your amazing progress! So, I wan... ↩️ Hey, I am still using it, since I started out really late and was hoping to keep updating the goal I was working on. but I can't seem to use the "quick update" anymore. what do you recommend I'd do? TIA and I love that this site exists!!!

Replying to lsmhermens: ...but I can't seem to use the "quick update" anymore. what do you recommend I'd do? ↩️ Sorry, I missed this question 😅 'Quick update' updates the current goal. If the end date of the goal has already passed, quick update will be disabled. So, you'll have to create a new goal. I guess ideally it would be best to be able to 'extend' the current goal, right? I disabled editing the start date and length because I wasn't sure what do do with the existing records. Like, if someone has logged every day of november, then changes the start date to the first of december, they probably don't want to throw away their logs. Similarly, if someone logs every day of november, but then changes the goal length to 15 days, they don't want to get rid of half the logs. Basically, it's definitely possible to implement, but there are a bunch of endge cases to think through, and some design work to make it clear.