STATS:
WEEK 9 TOTAL: 4,896
WEEK 9 AVERAGE: 699
WORDS TO GO:
January:
- Minimum (83,334 word goal): 78,438
- Stretch (100,000 word goal): 95,104
- Insane Stretch (200,000 word goal): 195,104
Year: 942,493
Welcome to the first Milwordy weekly recap of 2026!
And to be honest, so far, my 200,000-word goal for the month isn’t looking to be a successful or realistic one foe me.
Week 9 is now my lowest opening week word count at 4,896 , overthrowing Week 1’s 5,292 word count for that title.
But on the bright side, 4,896 is still better than the 1,629 words I wrote in Week 7 or even 2,284 words I wrote in Week 6.
Not to mention for the first time since Week 5, I got words written in every day of the week.
WEEK 9 WINS
So even though I did not get done as much words as I would have liked, Week 9 was still in an improvement in words. And there are a couple of wins to celebrate.
First of all, on January 6th, I got the FIRST THREE CHAPTERS of A Speller’s Genesis, one of the two projects that I’ve been working on, launched on this website!
The fourth chapter is coming tommorrow, January 9th. Basically, 1 to 3 chapters of the 49-chapter serialized novels is going to get release on Tuesdays and Fridays (and 3 surprise Mondays of this quarter monthly), so if you’re interested and haven’t read it already, check it out!
Okay, promotion time over. Back to recapping.
I still have not finished any books on my currently reading list, but I did start reading My Charlie, a Wattpad & Inkitt book.
So all in all, even though I’m not making as much progress as I would like to, I’m still making progress and improving over last month.
SHIFTING GEARS IN MY JANUARY MONTHLY GOAL AND LOOKING AHEAD
But yeah, 200,000 in a month? That’s now going to be my INSANE stretch GOAL. My new/official minimum goal is 83,334, but my minimum STRETCH goal is 100,000 words.
This will definitely lower the pressure and will help me actually write faster, knowing that I don’t have to push as hard if I don’t want to or can’t push as hard.
But anyway, that’s all from me.
How is your January going so far?
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