this is my official milwordy
announcement.
okay hello internet friends my name is
davaisha and
um you're here on my channel. hi so this
video
i'm going to be talking about my crazy
word goal.
if you've been around in the authortube
sphere
um recently you know what's going on
milwordy kate cavanagh issued the
milwordy challenge
and at first i was like i'm definitely
not going to do that with you kate
you're on your own for that one.
i was content to watch kate suffer.
it's a terrible idea i wasn't i wasn't
gonna do it but then i was thinking
about i was like
you know what i think i kind of want to
do it.
or at least a version of it. so yes i'm
going to be doing milwordy
but that's not my crazy writing goal.
haha plot twist.
my crazy writing goal is wanting to do
12 books in 12 months. there is this
facebook group
which i learned about from sky at sd
heyges
and i've been lurking in that facebook
group kind of just like hesitant to
want to try to do it. i thought about that
being a challenge i would try
when i'm a little bit more experienced
with writing but with kate doing
milwordy i was like
this is the perfect time but i decided
to do it now um well i'm still like a
baby writer
so that i can get all my ideas out and
be more prolific and hopefully this will
help
refine my writing process.
i figured i could lump it all together
and have the accountability of the
community because
there are other people doing milwordy as
well.
so that's that's what i'm going to do 12
books
in 12 months a year. actually it's gonna
be 13 months but i'll get into that
with the details. let me just okay bring
it on back.
unofficially i'm going to be starting
kate's milwordy challenge with her
in september. september 1st we'll be
having a live stream
at 11am eastern on kate's channel. okay
now let's get into the details because
there are some caveats because i'm a
punk bitch. i need to pull out my
handy dandy notebook. so the milwordy
challenge is
september to august and
my 12 books and 12 months challenge i'm
going to start with nanowrimo.
i liked starting with nano and ending
with nano so that's why it's going to be
13 months instead of
12. okay so here are the rules i'm
setting for myself.
the 12 books in 12 months challenge is
4 000 40 no
not 40 is 480 thou-
yeah that's right 400 480 000 words.
12 things have to add up to 480 000.
it could be non-fiction blogs short
stories novellas
like full-length drafts. as long as it's 12
written projects it doesn't have to be
just fiction and that's where i'm going
to differ.
for my 12 books and 13 months challenge
i'm going to do 12
purely fiction projects. right now i'm
thinking -
oh i could not possibly i could not
possibly do
12 full-length novels in 12 months 13
months i couldn't do it.
so i'm thinking i can do or at least try
six novels and six short stories. before
i thought of this
i was planning to do short stories
monthly um but i'll just
scale it back to do to doing them
bi-monthly. that's what i'm doing for
that portion.
this is all over the place i'm so sorry
but like this is how my brain works.
that's what i'm doing for that portion
12
fiction projects in
12 13 months. november to november nano
to nano
and that's all i'm going to be tracking
for that. but
for milwordy i'm going to
be tracking a host
of things. a slew, a frenzy, a
gaggle, a what's another word that means
a lot of things?
um a lot of things okay. i've broken down
milwordy into
four categories. one is fiction
fiction words i really just feel like
the bulk of my 12 books 12 months
words will fall into this and by that
what i actually mean is the bulk of this
category
will be filled with the words that i get
from the 12 books 12 months challenge. 
so number one is fiction words that
includes
brainstorming outlining drafting
revising. imma do it
category two is non-fiction words. that
includes
blog posts for the blog that i do intend
to have up sometime soon relatively soon
i should write that down on my calendar.
newsletters
um for possibly if that's a 2021 thing.
if i get there that's included .book
reviews,
movie reviews, tv reviews for the second
channel that
i also would like to do at some point.
it was an august goal but we will see.
category three
is personal words. so this is where
words that are not gonna go on the
internet words that i don't
ever intend for anyone to see. so it's
gonna be journal entries
and poems. i started my writing journey
with poem
poetry when i was a wee thing so i do
those sometimes.
when i'm feeling really emo. category
four is throwaway words.
these are words from all the above
categories that have been trashed.
i'm going to make a separate folder
or like file so i can have all of my
thrown away words i don't use to count
towards
milwordy.
so that was that for that. so really i'm
taking the
essence of these two challenges and like
mushing them together and doing whatever
the fuck i want to.
so yeah i'm going to be tracking these
things on
two different spreadsheets. cus i kind of
want the results of them
independently. um i am complete ass at
making spreadsheets like i really don't
get it.
um so i've kind of been like stealing
everyone else's spreadsheets.
like like a like an excel goblin
um a spreadsheet goblin. i've just been
taking from other people
because i don't know how to do
spreadsheets. the two that i have
one is a variation that i got from the
courtney project
when she did spreadsheets for a 10k in a
day group
and the other one i got from jules at
the dawdling writer.
so i'll be using those two hopefully
this made
sense okay hopefully the way i explain
this makes sense. if it doesn't
leave a comment i'll explain it
hopefully better.
um but yeah yeah yeah.
those are the two things i'm going to be
doing for the foreseeable future.
um i will be posting updates. i think
i'll try to post a monthly
update. i do have some videos planned 
for september
that are brainstorming videos for before
nano. so to wrap it all up too long
didn't watch
i'm going to be doing milwordy. a million
words in a year.
but to the main focus of my milwordy is
going to be
half of it. so half a milwordy.
well an almost half a milwordy. 480 000
words.
um and anything i get after that is just
gonna be
gravy on the train that is not the
saying.
anyways um hopefully i've said
everything that needs to be said because
i'm losing my mind.
that's my crazy writing goal. thank you
so much for watching.
don't forget to hop on over to kate's
channel to
set the reminder for the live stream
september 1st
11 a.m eastern 10 am
central. i don't know what it is pacific
but yes
it is in pacific as well. if you like
this video
give it a thumbs up. if you're gonna if
you're joining
milwordy or any variation of it leave me
a comment.
um we should make a mllwordy group
chat oh my god.
we should do that guys if you're doing
milwaukee let me know if you'll be down
for
a milwordy group chat. yeah subscribe
if you'd like to see more from me
and my crazy word journey and.
that's it. i will see you guys in the
next one.
also if you're good with spreadsheets
leave me your spreadsheet down below
because i will
like to have it. leave me your
spreadsheets.
give me your spreadsheets.
give me your spreadsheets ,right right
now. bring it on back.
okay so oh my gosh okay let's start this
all over.
i've rewind. i've rewound. clean slate. okay
