Link: https://mycorrhiza.space/Blog/2025-03-11-500_words

My average word count per day for 365 days came to 433. This challenge also took me a bit longer than a year to complete. The book 1 draft was finished on March 9th 2025.

I really like how the author uses a streak, but only to the point where it's useful for them personally. For instance, according to some people they "failed" in keeping their streak. I know people who keep this big grids of 365 checkboxes to motivate themselves -- shame themselves -- into never missing a single day. The author here, misses plenty of days. But as they put it themselves, "Did I fail then? NO!! I finished the draft!!"

They also eschew "makeup days" out of hand - something that I know can be like a millstone around one's neck after missing a few days.