Last Day of the Written Word Challenge
December 20, 2010 · Print This Article
Yeah, yeah, the challenge was over on Friday, but I didn't have a chance to post the last day's results until now.
Much of Day 5 was a bust, I'll admit it.
"Mom, I'm going to make some cookies. Which recipe should I use?"
"I'll pick one out for you (my favorite of course), just let me finish this paragraph."
"We're out of flour. Is there more some where?"
"Yes, you can't find it? Let me hunt it down and then I've got to get back to work."
"How do I make different colors of frosting?"
"I'll be happy to show you if you let me lick one of the beaters!"
"Mom, cookies are ready! Will you help me clean up the kitchen… pretty please?"
And so on… sigh.
Day 5 TOTAL – 2633 written words
Blog Posts - 516 (2 1/2 blog posts)
Articles - 0
PLR Articles - 1350 (4 AR articles)
PLR eBook or Report - 564
Blog Commenting, mine and others - 203 ( 5 comments)
Physical Book - 0
Forum Posting - 0
Emails - 0
I didn’t count tweets.
Grand Total Results for the 5 days: 16,094 words
Blog Posts - 3047 (9 blog posts)
Articles - 778 (1 article)
PLR Articles - 7427 (20 PLR articles)
PLR eBook or Report - 2330
Blog Commenting, mine and others - 1543 (26 comments)
Physical Book - 587
Forum Posting - 0
Emails - 382 (3 emails)
The results of this challenge were both physical and mental. After 5 days I had 20 PLR articles I could then sell! That makes me happy since making online money is important to me. I do wish I'd spent more time working on my physical book, but I tend to only add to that as the spirit moves me.
I am happy to say I did not compromise my quality for the sake of the word counts.
But I did find out I can write much more in a day than I thought I could. It helped to have a challenge like this so that I could hopefully create a new habit of just getting over my internal objections. getting myself out of the way, and just start pumping out those articles. And making it public really helped me because I don't want to look too stupid. 
It's true I was all over the place as far as what I worked on, but that's what makes writing fun for me. I didn't think about it at the time, but I did absolutely no forum posting. I must have put that on the backburner as not being important in my mission.
Yes, you can force creativity!
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It sounds like you did great! It's much harder when kids are home from school though, I have to say. This week, I'm resigning myself to only working in the evenings. It's too hard to get things done with four at home all day!
Twitter: pegbaron
on December 20th, 2010 9:16 pm
Hi Steph,
Thanks for stopping by again and keeping me honest.
It is hard to work when the kids are home. At least mine both have their drivers licenses now, so that helps a TON!
But I have to say it's almost easier to get more stuff done when you only have a limited time, like the evenings. Don't you think?
Peggy
Twitter: tristanhigbee
on December 20th, 2010 9:19 pm
Great job, Peggy! That's seriously awesome. At first I thought you had written 3047 blog posts instead of 3047 words, and I was really confused!
I haven't forgotten!
Oh, and I'm still cooking up ideas for the PLR post on my blog
Twitter: pegbaron
on December 20th, 2010 9:36 pm
Hi Tristan,
Thanks! Sorry about the confusion. I guess I got so tired of writing words that I couldn't bear to write an extra few to explain the results better.
And I'm glad you haven't forgotten… I've had interest from some of your blog readers.
Is my CommentLuv not working now for commenters?? Good grief, this thing is giving me such grief!
Peggy
Peggy – I agree with you. It's actually easier to stay focused when you know you only have an hour or two to get your work done!
Twitter: pegbaron
on December 22nd, 2010 12:26 pm
Yeah Steph, I'm trying to cram in as much as I can right now before the kids wake up. Sometimes I really like that teenagers sleep waay in. And BTW, my time stamp on this blog is wrong. It's not really after 12 noon!
Peggy
Peggy,
Congrats on your word count that’s fantastic. An inspiration really. I am going to go back and read your previous posts to find out more about the word challenge. Thank you for sharing
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Twitter: pegbaron
on June 26th, 2011 11:42 pm
Thanks, Lynda.
I’m thinking it’s just about time for another challenge!
Peggy