Writing contract self-evaluation

I totaled the number of hours I wrote these past 30 days and it came out to 19.91. I counted partial hours in the total. So I met my goal of 18 hours (5 hours per week minus two vacation days) set out in the writing contract.

I could have done better on documenting the time. I would often forget to document it daily and lump them together on a day when I actually remembered to document my time.

I produced 18 posts on my Annette's Notebook blog this month. Twelve of those posts were documenting my refined sugar fast. Six were on other topics including my trip to New York and an article on feminism. I also wrote some journal entries during that time.

I don't know if the quality of my writing improved. I really didn't do anything different on the blog than what I have been doing. I didn't have a goal as far as that. I didn't submit anything for publication.

Would my writing get better if I spent more time doing it, or if I set some more goals? Undoubtedly. I was doing some career research this week and came across this blog post. In the comments, the author says she spends four hours each weekend day on writing fiction, and six to 10 hours per day writing, for a total of 100,000 words a month. I suppose it all depends on my commitment to it and where I want to go with it.

I give myself a grade of B. I did put in the time and I didn't produce total crap but it's not the kind of effort that would merit an A.

One hour of writing completed today.

I completed one hour of writing. I finished my post about New York.

I wrote for about 40 minutes tonight, and about an equal amount of time yesterday. My mind is toast tonight so I will be going to bed.