The Penalty Jar
Apr. 23rd, 2009 08:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ann_r_starrOkay, well I haven't been doing enough writing lately, so I decided to get serious. I brought a large glass jar today and labelled it "Penalty Jar".
For every day I fail to write at least 500 words, I have to place $2 into the jar. The contents of the jar can only be reclaimed if I write 1000 or more words in a single day. If I don't write for long enough that the jar fills up, then that money will be donated towards the effort to build an animal shealther here in town.
I'm counting yesterday in this new routine and as I didn't write at all yesterday, I've paid the penality.
Current novel stats:
Number of Words: 38210
Number of Pages: 69
Number of Broken bones: 3
Number of Cuts: 2
Number of Sick Characters: 2
Number of Angsty moments: 3
Amount of money in Penalty Jar: $2
For every day I fail to write at least 500 words, I have to place $2 into the jar. The contents of the jar can only be reclaimed if I write 1000 or more words in a single day. If I don't write for long enough that the jar fills up, then that money will be donated towards the effort to build an animal shealther here in town.
I'm counting yesterday in this new routine and as I didn't write at all yesterday, I've paid the penality.
Current novel stats:
Number of Words: 38210
Number of Pages: 69
Number of Broken bones: 3
Number of Cuts: 2
Number of Sick Characters: 2
Number of Angsty moments: 3
Amount of money in Penalty Jar: $2
