At the beginning of January I wrote about my plan to average 500 words per day for the year, and invited you to join with your writing plans.
How did I do in January?
My total for the month was 10,272 which was an average of 331 words per day. I did not write on 14 out of 31 days.
Conversely, for the 17 days I did write, my daily average was 733 words
Were there some missed days where I could have put some words down? Possibly. My main issue was brain fog as the time I had available for writing was generally the evening, and by then my chronic fatigue was in full operation. Even the act of typing caused pain.
It is what it is.
If I add the 5,228 deficit from January to February's planned 14,000 then I'm left with a daily average target of 687. It's not insurmountable, but then neither is 500.
The plan is not to sweat catching it all up this month, but to definitely make the month's base target.
Helping me on the way is the project of my poetry book 'I Will Not Cease From Mental Fight'. While the poems are completed, my explanatory notes are still to be finished.
One of the areas I'd hoped to be further along on is my steampunk novel Solstice in Sar Chona. While regular chapters are going up on 
Of course the executive disfunction means I don't like being told what I need to work on, even by myself. And then there's the whole deadline thing - self imposed or not - I'm firmly in the Douglas Adams camp of loving the whooshing sound deadlines make as they whiz by.
How did you do with your plans for the month?
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Some will know The Proclaimers song I’m Gonna Be (500 miles). Well, it’s still the theme for this writing year: ‘and I will write 500 words, and I will write 500 more’.